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If you want some random binary junk, you might try opening up /dev/urandom and reading however many bytes from that. Unfortunately, I believe /dev/urandom is a Linux-specific device, and that's a pretty big limitation.
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RE: Re: generating random blocks of data...
by alan (Initiate) on Feb 25, 2000 at 02:25 UTC
    thanks to (and the previous reply) both are great ideas and have me pointed in the right direction.. I'm acutally glad I got input from you guys on both random text and ideas for random binary junk.. :) /alan