				   SHRED 1.0
Written 3/15/96 
by: pathetic@paranoia.com


license:  

	Shred 1.0 may be freely distributed, copied, and/or modified. 



Installation:


	To install shred, unzip shred.exe into your dos directory or other
 directory in your dos path.


Usage:

Shred 1.0 is used to permanently delete files. Once a file is deleted with 
shred it can not be recovered with undelete or by any other means for that
matter. To invoke shred, at the command prompt type: 

shred <filename>




Notes:

	As far as I can tell there is no way to recover files deleted with 
this program. So please be careful. Send me E-mail and let me know what you 
think of this program. Also, if you find a way to recover files(usable files)
that were deleted with shred, please let me know. thanks. 
 
UPDATE(3/15/96): I have been informed(thank you whoever you were) about the 
problem of shred only overwriting the first 49 bytes of the files, so I 
fixed it. Version 1.1 now overwrites every byte of the files.


 