Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!steinmetz!davidsen
From: davidsen@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Enhanced "drain" program
Message-ID: <10260@steinmetz.steinmetz.ge.com>
Date: 5 Apr 88 20:12:07 GMT
References: <454@splut.UUCP> <24284@clyde.ATT.COM>
Reply-To: davidsen@crdos1.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: General Electric CRD, Schenectady, NY
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Keywords: works great!


  You don't have to be a hacker from age 12 to have read the net for six
months. There are many things which are so common that they should not
have to be explained more than every few months, to keep some signal to
noise ratio present.

  Among these things are ARC, PKARK, DRAIN, UUDECODE, and SHAR. If you
don't understand, a polite note to the author would get you more
information and less flack than a flame to the net. Your question was
legitimate, but your means of asking it was really offensive.

  DRAIN drains the water out of your disk drive! The source code says
so! To use it, plug a three foot cable into your serial port, place the
other end in an empty bucket, and run drain. It will take all the water
which is in your disk drive and transfer it to the bucket.

  NOTE: if you don't have a serial port, use a parallel cable and type
	"drain /p"
instead. Use of a cable over six feet long may affect operation. Some
clones may not have all of the hardware features required. Most
warantees do not cover damage caused by condensation in the disk drives.
I ran this version of DRAIN of the PCs of two of my colleagues, and
after running there wasn't a drop of water left in the drive, even the
72MB non-IBM model.
-- 
	bill davidsen		(wedu@ge-crd.arpa)
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"Stupidity, like virtue, is its own reward" -me