>> On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 09:05:44 -0400, Dan Stoner <[log in to unmask]> said:


>> 1042808832
>> 
>> bytes long.  


>> So, how would you-all solve that one?  I have this intuition that
>> there's a simpler way I just can't find.

> Some variation of the dd command?


I suppose I could specify a one-byte block size, and my byte count.
The thought of that made me grumpy, for no good reason I can recount.

- Allen S. Rout