Mac Classic, System 7,0 (or 6.0.7), secure delete ...

A friend is retiring her venerable Mac Classic running System 6.0.7 (and MacWrite II) in favour of a grape iMac she's getting free from another friend (oh my, what a shock she'll have - from System 6 to OS 9 in one fell swoop!). Anyway ...
Moving the data over isn't a huge problem, I think she's opted for 1.44MB floppies and an external floppy drive for the iMac. It's the data left on the Classic that's worrying her.
I'm sending her my complete set of System 7 Install discs from my original Classic, which includes the Disk Tools disk, on which is the System Folder and HD SC Setup (version B1-7.0)
So, the question is (aah, finally, you're thinking!) ... Does the version of HD SC Setup as supplied on the System 7 discs for the Classic (they install System 7.0, although there is a "System 7 Tune-Up" disk too) and especially the Disk Tools disk have a secure delete option? Unfortunately the Classic in question is over 250 miles away so I can't get to it at the moment.
Will I need an third party utility to completely erase the data on the internal hard disk or will HD SC Setup do it?

Burn.sit is only 89 k-should work.
You can use a 7.5 DisTools Disk on the Classic. For DiskTools you may look at
Jan Hedlund
DiskTools Floppy 8.1
http://download.info.apple.com/AppleSupport_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/System/Mac_ OS_8.1Update/
Disk tools (look for jpl)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=1358076&#1358076
wipe the HD(jpl),AppleIIFreak(network Access Disk)
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=612995&#612995
You can download all you need at:
Drive Setup 1.7.3
http://download.info.apple.com/AppleSupport_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/Utilities/D riveSetup/
HD SC Setup 7.3.5
http://download.info.apple.com/AppleSupport_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-NorthAmerican/Macintosh/Utilities/
Disk First Aid
http://download.info.apple.com/AppleSupport_Area/Apple_Software_Updates/English-North_American/Macintosh/Utilities/D isk_FirstAid/
More about Drive Setup 1.7.3
Jan Hedlund
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=614031&#614031
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=613601&#613601
How hard could it be?
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=613601&#613601
I need OS for Macintosh SE
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=613736&#613736
Mac Classic II Refuses To Start Properly
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=613843&#613843
HTH

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be running fine but the fonts available in the
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1379
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht2344
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