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08/24/05 10:46 AM >>> man dd (if=/dev/null) jdd
Thanks for the tip to using the dd tool. I found the actual commands from other web sites easily once I knew what to look for. Using /dev/null as the input never produced anything though, which thinking about it makes sense, as how could you create anything from nothing, which I think the /dev/null device is? For anyone else on the list who may find this interesting the command should be something like: dd if=/dev/zero of=/outputfile bs=1024 count=1 This command will read in the /dev/zero file (a special area of memory with all zeros), create a file called outputfile with a byte size (bs) of 1024 repeated once (count), which will create a 1Kb file. For a 1Mb file you would simply increase the count value to 1024. SteveC