Andrew Diederich wrote: > > I need to make a 15 meg text file. Is there a way I can use domething like > /dev/zero to do this? If so, how? dd if=/dev/zero of=zeroes bs=100000 count=150 This took less than a second on a dual Celeron 433. Calvin -- Calvin Dodge Certified Linux Bigot http://www.caldodge.fpcc.net