\_ SMTP quoth Gilbert T. Gutierrez, Jr. on 5/10/2001 10:52 as having spake thusly: \_ \_ I need to create a junk file that is precisely 1MB. How would I go about \_ doing that? Sorry, I have to: emacs /var/lib/netscape-communicator C-SPC C-u 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 C-f M-x write-region /tmp/1mgfile C-x C-c On a related topic, don't try to truncate 21M lines from a 468M file using vi. David