NAME MKEF (MaKe Empty File) SYNOPSIS mkef.exe [ *options* ] [ *filename* ] ABSTRACT Project distributes under GNU GPL v.3 License. Full text of this license You can get here: http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html. Copyright (c) 2010-2011 by Zhelobkov Vyacheslav http://sourceforge.net/projects/mkef DISCLAIMER MKEF comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details see the license. Please report all problems or suggestions to the authors. Thanks. DESCRIPTION MKEF (MaKe Empty File) is little console utility for creating empty file with gived size. Main sence of writing it - make simple Read-Only protection for USB-flash drives, which now represents one of main ways of viruses expansion. Most common usage - place executable file on USB-flash drive and run it for space filling. When free space will need, delete empty file. Usage: mkfe [-n ] [-p ] [-s ] [-u ] [-a ] [-l] [-h|/h|-?] -l Given size (see -s) - is how much free space should be left on the storage. -n File of new file. By default - unique name for gived directory. -p Destination path where file will be created. By default - current directory. -s Size of new file. By default - whole empty space on . -u Units of gived size. Permitted: B, K, M, G, % (of free space). By default - M(egabytes). -a Optional file attributes. Permitted: A, S, H, R. By default -H(idden). -h|/? Show this help and exit DIAGNOSTICS Exit status is normally 0; if an unknown error occurs, exit status is 1. Other exit statuses: error in parameters - 3 wrong target path - 4 error generating file name - 5 error creating file - 6 common disk error - 7 free space is not enough - 8 target size is zero - 9 BUGS Please report all bugs immediately to the authors. AUTHORS Vyacheslav Zhelobkov. Odessa, Ukraine. mail: rettpop@gmail.com Common profile: http://www.google.com/profiles/rettpop COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2010-2011 by Zhelobkov Vyacheslav This program may be used freely, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU GPL License for more details.