PENICILN		ST User's Manual			PENICILN

NAME
     PENICILN - Remove possible virus programs from floppy disks

SYNOPSIS
     peniciln [-km] drive [...drive]

DESCRIPTION
     peniciln wipes out all unnecessary data in the boot sector of a
     disk. It insures that there no executable boot program on the disk,
     while preserving the serial number, disk configuration data, and all
     files. Normally, peniciln cleans only the drive named on the command
     line, then exits. Drive names must be a, b, or c (upper or lower case).

     -k   when this option is specified, the program will loop, waiting 
          for a keyboard command. Keys 'a' and 'b' will cause it to clean 
          the disk in that drive, while any other key will cause the program
          to exit.

     -m   this option causes the program to write an MS-DOS compatible boot
          sector, rather than zeroing out the data. MS-DOS boot data will
          not be written to drive C.

BUGS
     Peniciln is an absolute sterilization program. If the disk requires
     an executable boot, such as self-booting games or commercial software,
     it will be destroyed and the program will become useless. Peniciln
     should not be run on a disk unless the disk is used for storage only.
     Running Peniciln on drive C will stop a hard disk from auto-booting.

AUTHOR
     George R. Woodside             Compuserve  76537,1342 
     5219 San Feliciano Dr.         GEnie       G.WOODSIDE
     Woodland Hills, Ca. 91364 

     USENET:   woodside@ttidca
         or:   ..!{philabs|csun|psivax}!ttidca!woodside

Printed 03/27/88                                                1