>> 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