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Unfortunately, that didn't generate a file large enough, but it does give me some other ideas.

Thanks Perderabo.

What I would benefit from is people helping me solve this problem instead of calling to question my intent, then wondering why I'm being defensive. If you can't understand that, then I have neither...

Calling into question people's intent usually puts them on the defensive. Had you just said "I don't know" I would have had zero problems.

Next time think before you hit submit.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'fishy' but just because *you* don't see a need for it doesn't mean it isn't legitimate. I really don't want to leave 100-300MB files laying around for when my...

Sure. I'm going to use it to generate a file to ftp to/from multiple systems for network benchmarking.

I already have all the ftp parts automated, I just can't figure out how to generate the file...

I'm trying to write a script that generates a file of varying size filled with random text and am having some difficulties.

The major problems are that I'm limited to csh and a lot of the systems...

Type startx

That will start the Xserver. If you want the gui to start when you start the machine, you'll have to edit this line in you /etc/inittab file: id:x:initdefault:

Change whatever x is...

cubicle^dweller,

I had the same problem with my printer. It required me to shut the printer off and reboot the system. That cleared just about everything that was buffered.