bit bucket for fat32 or ntfs under xp

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Gary Roach

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 said:
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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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.
 
Gary said:
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.
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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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