I need to create an 8 gigabyte binary file with zero values throughout it. Is there a faster way to do this than to create a big string of zeros and write it to the file multiple times? What I'm doing right now works but seems like a really ugly method:
' Zero-out the file. Zero = Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) & Chr$(0) FOR counter = 1 TO 65536 Zeros = Zeros & Zero NEXT FOR counter = 1 TO 4096 WRITE #Elevation, Zeros NEXT ----- Kevin Fishburne, Eight Virtues www: http://sales.eightvirtues.com http://sales.eightvirtues.com e-mail: mailto:sa...@eightvirtues.com sa...@eightvirtues.com phone: (770) 853-6271 -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/fastest-way-to-%22zero-out%22-a-huge-binary-file-tp27290885p27290885.html Sent from the gambas-user mailing list archive at Nabble.com. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Throughout its 18-year history, RSA Conference consistently attracts the world's best and brightest in the field, creating opportunities for Conference attendees to learn about information security's most important issues through interactions with peers, luminaries and emerging and established companies. http://p.sf.net/sfu/rsaconf-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Gambas-user mailing list Gambas-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/gambas-user
