[Gambas-user] fastest way to "zero-out" a huge binary file

[kevinfishburne]

kevinfishburne wrote:
> 
> Excellent, thanks. I seem to have found something horrifying while trying
> to create the file using GAMBAS however; using the SEEK statement with an
> argument greater than 2 GB raises a "Bad argument" error. While that
> doesn't affect my ability to create the file, it kills me later when
> trying to read and write to it. Other than using a different version of
> GAMBAS all I can think to do is to create four 2 GB data files, which will
> create additional overhead in the read/write procedures that access the
> file. Actually since my file is slightly larger than 8 GB I'll need to
> create five separate files. :(
> 

Praise God, I was incorrect. I was foolishly using too small a datatype
(integer) when calculating the seek position. Now that I switched it to long
all is well. :)

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