On May 19, 2005, at 11:49 AM, Boris Liberman wrote:
I just created a utility like this in 4 minutes with AppleScript on Mac
OS X and checked it with a data recovery utility. All I get from the
data recovery effort is random noise back from the last iteration of
the write loop. It's pretty efficient, takes only about thirty seconds
to run on a 1G card.
Godfrey, I did not know you and I were kindred spirits ;)... Though I am Unix/Windows guy. No experience with Mighty Mac.
We may be more kindred than you think. Mac OS X is built on a Mach UNIX kernel and has a full implementation of BSD command line utilities installed ...
I could have written the script in a range of different shell scripts, or Perl, or Ruby or Python or ... you name it. ;-)
Godfrey
