Create a binary file using a Microsoft utility...

Hello,

Can someone please help, some time back, I came across a command which was
bundled with some
Microsoft SDK or resource kit or something and this command generated a file
of fixed length full of binary zeros.

I can't find it now which is bugging me, I thought it was genfch but I cant
find that anywhere.

Any ideas ?

Thanks in advance.

Hal

FSUTIL?

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silly wrote:
> Create a binary file using a Microsoft utility...
>
> Hello,
>
> Can someone please help, some time back, I came across a command
> which was bundled with some
> Microsoft SDK or resource kit or something and this command generated
> a file of fixed length full of binary zeros.
>
> I can't find it now which is bugging me, I thought it was genfch but
> I cant find that anywhere.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Hal

Try FSUTIL or MS Resource Kit createfil.exe


"silly" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:(E-Mail Removed)...
> Create a binary file using a Microsoft utility...
>
> Hello,
>
> Can someone please help, some time back, I came across a command which was
> bundled with some
> Microsoft SDK or resource kit or something and this command generated a
file
> of fixed length full of binary zeros.
>
> I can't find it now which is bugging me, I thought it was genfch but I
cant
> find that anywhere.
>
> Any ideas ?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Hal
>
>

Thanks Gill & Dean, it was fsutil which is not remotely similar in name to
genfch - says a lot about my memory!!!!

The syntax would be: fsutil file createnew C:\testfile.txt 1000

Just as an aside, I saw that you can do this:
fsutil file setzerodata offset=100 length=150 C:\Temp\sample.txt
which looks like it might be useful to me one day.... off topic but, I
wonder if there is a linux equivalent command line utility to zap a file
somewhere in the middle?

Thanks again
Hal.

silly wrote:
> Just as an aside, I saw that you can do this:
> fsutil file setzerodata offset=100 length=150 C:\Temp\sample.txt
> which looks like it might be useful to me one day.... off topic but, I
> wonder if there is a linux equivalent command line utility to zap a file
> somewhere in the middle?

I think something like this:

dd bs=1 if=/dev/zero of=sample.txt seek=100 count=150 conv=notrunc

Is FSUTIL.EXE from XP safe to use on a 2k system?

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Jim Davis wrote:
>
> Is FSUTIL.EXE from XP safe to use on a 2k system?

Just ran it from an XP share without a problem, at least for createnew.

HTH

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