HELP!!! NEED A FILE SHREDDER FOR MAC OS 9.1

Hi. I have a problem: I want to sell my old Mac G3 with MAc OS 9.1, but cannot find a file shredder to be able to erase my personal files properly!!!!
Can someone help me!!! Please!!!
rAtMonKeY

Burn 2.5 from www.thenextwave.com has worked fine for me for years. I keep an alias of it next to my Trash and just drag and drop a file onto it if I want to securely erase a file.
Also, PGP 6.5.8, the great freeware encryption program by Phil Zimmermann, has an "erase free space" function which one can use to wipe all the free space on your Mac which might have remnants of personal files you had earlier erased.
Also, if you have the install CDs, one could always reformat the hard drive and reinstall the operating system and write 0s and 1s to the hard drive during this process, but that would wipe all current files off your disk as part of the process.

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