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View the most recent changes for the bcwipe port at: bcwipe.darwinports.com/diff
Scroll down toward the bottom of the page to get installation instructions for bcwipe.
The raw portfile for bcwipe 1.6-6 is located here:
http://bcwipe.darwinports.com/dports/sysutils/bcwipe/Portfile
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# $Id: Portfile 30254 2007-10-23 02:22:51Z jmpp macports.org $

PortSystem 1.0
Name: bcwipe
Version: 1.6-6
distname BCWipe-1.6-6
Category: sysutils security
Maintainers: nomaintainer
Description: Securely erase data from magnetic and solid-state memory.
Long Description: The BCWipe software is intended to give you a confidence that your deleted files cannot be recovered by an intruder. BCWipe repeatedly overwrites special patterns to the files to be destroyed. BCWipe for UNIX offers two wiping schemas: US DoD 5200.28-STD standard and Peter Gutmann's 35 pass scheme.
Homepage: http://www.jetico.com/
Platform: darwin
master_sites http://www.jetico.com/linux/
checksums md5 5aedd5b4e6eddc924010d5a8ff30fc84
worksrcdir bcwipe
patchfiles patch-Makefile.diff

configure {
reinplace "s| prefix |${prefix}|g" ${worksrcpath}/Makefile
}

If you haven't already installed Darwin Ports, you can find easy instructions for doing so at the main Darwin Ports page.
Once Darwin Ports has been installed, in a terminal window and while online, type the following and hit return:

%  cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/bcwipe
%  sudo port install bcwipe  
Password: 

You will then be prompted for your root password, which you should enter. You may have to wait for a few minutes while the software is retrieved from the network and installed for you. Y ou should see something that looks similar to:

--->  Fetching bcwipe
--->  Verifying checksum for bcwipe
--->  Extracting bcwipe
--->  Configuring bcwipe
--->  Building bcwipe with target all

--->  Staging bcwipe into destroot

--->  Installing bcwipe

- Make sure that you do not close the terminal window while Darwin Ports is working. Once the software has been installed, you can find further information about using bcwipe with these commands:

%  man bcwipe
%  apropos bcwipe
%  which bcwipe
%  locate bcwipe

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