i want to copy a large amount of data to nowhere (the bit bucket, aka
/dev/null) in order to test a network connection. what serves as such
file/device under xp? i have access to both fat32 and ntfs filesystems.

thanks

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"Gary Roach" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>i want to copy a large amount of data to nowhere (the bit bucket, aka
>/dev/null) in order to test a network connection. what serves as such
>file/device under xp? i have access to both fat32 and ntfs filesystems.
>
> thanks
>
> --
> Gary Roach
> ADB Services
>
The null device ( NUL: ) still exists. You could try that. Note the colon
at the end.

yeah i tried that but ntbackup doesn't like it. it works okay with "copy"
but i need to use some kind of streaming archiving tool to send a bunch of
data out the connection without having to create one big huge file.

"Mark Weinreb" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> "Gary Roach" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>>i want to copy a large amount of data to nowhere (the bit bucket, aka
>>/dev/null) in order to test a network connection. what serves as such
>>file/device under xp? i have access to both fat32 and ntfs filesystems.
>>
>> thanks
>>
>> --
>> Gary Roach
>> ADB Services
>>
> The null device ( NUL: ) still exists. You could try that. Note the colon
> at the end.
>
>
>

Gary Roach wrote:

> i want to copy a large amount of data to nowhere (the bit bucket, aka
> /dev/null) in order to test a network connection. what serves as such
> file/device under xp? i have access to both fat32 and ntfs filesystems.

You might want to check out cygwin to get a more posix environment to get
this job done. http://www.cygwin.com/


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