From 7c30edc14cbde9196f2be5ec09d3e6cffb1e8e0b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bobbi Webber-Manners Date: Mon, 8 Jun 2020 11:34:42 -0400 Subject: [PATCH] Added notes to README about zeroing free blocks --- README.md | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README.md b/README.md index b7e994b..d7304e6 100644 --- a/README.md +++ b/README.md @@ -11,6 +11,7 @@ a directory tree or an entire volume: - Multi-level directory sort - Manipulating the case of filenames * - Manipulating the format of time and date information * + - Zeroing free blocks *Sortdir* is intended to help users migrate to the new ProDOS 2.5 release, which is currently in alpha. The code has been testing with ProDOS 2.5a8, @@ -343,6 +344,8 @@ time format back to the legacy format. ### Zeroing Free Blocks -Not yet implemented in ProDOS-8 version. +If requested *Sortdir* will zero free blocks on disk. This is helpful in order +to make disk images compress better with ZIP or similar tools and also to +securely erase files.