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perase
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tHE perase uTILITY IS A sOFTWARE bULK-eRASE uTILITY.  iT ALLOWS THE USER TO EASILY REMOVE ALL TRACES OF DATA ON A DISKETTE, AND RETURN IT BACK TO A BLANK STATE.  oNLY 5" fLOPPY dISKS MAY BE OPERATED ON, INCLUDING sINGLE/dOUBLE dENSITY, sINGLE/dOUBLE sIDED DISK SYSTEMS.  tHE SYNTAX OF THE perase COMMAND IS:
 
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          !  perase,:A                                        !
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          !         :A  = DRIVE TO BE ERASED (0-7)            !
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          !  ABBR: none                                       !
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     wHEN THE DESIRED PARAMETERS HAVE BEEN SELECTED, THE SPECIFIED DRIVE WILL BE READ TO DETERMINE THE DISKETTE TYPE (CYLINDERS, DENSITY, SIDES).  tHE DISKETTE MUST BE CURRENTLY FORMATTED.  iF ldos CANNOT ESTABLISH THE TYPE OF DISKETTE, THE PROGRAM WILL ABORT WITH A "DEVICE NOT AVAILABLE" MESSAGE.  iF THERE IS NOT ENOUGH MEMORY FOR THE ERASE UTILITY TO OPERATE, THE PROGRAM WILL ABORT WITH A CORRESPONDING MESSAGE.  iF MEMORY IS SUFFICIENT, THEN THE ERASE OPERATION WILL PROCEED.  yOU WILL BE ASKED IF YOU ARE absolutely sure IF YOU WANT TO PROCEED WITH THIS OPERATION.  all data will be lost, SO BE SURE THAT THE CORRECT DISKETTE IS MOUNTED BEFORE YOU ANSWER yES.
 
     eACH TRACK WILL BE FORMATTED WITH ALL BITS OFF (ZEROES).  tHIS WILL EFFECTIVELY REMOVE ALL TRACES OF SECTORS AND DATA ON THE DISKETTE.  iF THE USER WISHES TO ABORT THE PROGRAM, PRESS THE break KEY, AND THE ROUTINE WILL ABORT AT THE COMPLETION OF THE CURRENT TRACK.  wHEN THE ENTIRE DISK HAS BEEN ERASED, IT MAY BE CONSIDERED A COMPLETELY BLANK DISK.  tHE PROGRAM WILL ESSENTIALLY PERFORM THE SAME TASK AS USING BULK-ERASE MAGNETS TO DELETE ALL INFORMATION FROM THE DISK.

