Where can I get a big text file ?

[AFB]

?

TIA

 

[gentobu]

Text

 

[notfred]

open TEXT, ">bigfile.txt";

$size = 5; # Size in megabytes.
$size *= (1024 * 1024);

for ($ii = 0; $ii < $size; $ii++) {
$char = int ( rand (127) );
if ( $char < 10 || $char == 11 || $char == 12 || ( $char >13 &amp;&amp; $char < 32 ) ){
$ii--;
}
else {
$char = chr( $char );
print TEXT $char;
}
}
close TEXT;

 

[TitanDiddly]

Open a .exe or something, save as .txt

 

[JustAnAverageGuy]

run SuperPi to 1 - 32 million places and tell it to save the results

It should meet your needs.

 

[dighn]

make a text file and type one character into it

then in command prompt type "type file.txt >> file.txt", repeat and it'll grow exponentially

 

[Chu]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy
?

TIA

My standard "big text file" is the King James Bible. It's about 4.7 megs uncompressed. Do a google search - pretty easy to find.

 

[her209]

Run a bat file that outputs to a text file.

 

[AFB]

NM, I got the file up to 30MB.

 

[silverpig]

Open a new text file, type some random characters. Doesn't have to be much.

ctrl a
ctrl c
arrow
ctrl v

ctrl a
ctrl c
arrow
ctrl v

do this 20 times and you're done.

Just did this myself. Took me all of 20 seconds to make a 5 MB file.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: silverpig
Open a new text file, type some random characters. Doesn't have to be much.

ctrl a
ctrl c
arrow
ctrl v

ctrl a
ctrl c
arrow
ctrl v

do this 20 times and you're done.

Just did this myself. Took me all of 20 seconds to make a 5 MB file.

Windows clipboard crashes at ~ 10MB

 

[chrisms]

Write a novel

 

[silverpig]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: silverpig
Open a new text file, type some random characters. Doesn't have to be much.

ctrl a
ctrl c
arrow
ctrl v

ctrl a
ctrl c
arrow
ctrl v

do this 20 times and you're done.

Just did this myself. Took me all of 20 seconds to make a 5 MB file.

Windows clipboard crashes at ~ 10MB

5 MB isn't big enough?

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: silverpig
Open a new text file, type some random characters. Doesn't have to be much.

ctrl a
ctrl c
arrow
ctrl v

ctrl a
ctrl c
arrow
ctrl v

do this 20 times and you're done.

Just did this myself. Took me all of 20 seconds to make a 5 MB file.

Windows clipboard crashes at ~ 10MB

5 MB isn't big enough?

No, I am looking for things to compress.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: notfred
open TEXT, ">bigfile.txt";

$size = 5; # Size in megabytes.
$size *= (1024 * 1024);

for ($ii = 0; $ii < $size; $ii++) {
$char = int ( rand (127) );
if ( $char < 10 || $char == 11 || $char == 12 || ( $char >13 &amp;&amp; $char < 32 ) ){
$ii--;
}
else {
$char = chr( $char );
print TEXT $char;
}
}
close TEXT;

I ran this in a DOS window and an alien spaceship landed outside my window. They knocked on my window and tried to order a Big Mac. This is a bad ass little program!!!

 

[LongCoolMother]

open a huge file. save it as .txt. there you go.

 

[Chu]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: silverpig
Open a new text file, type some random characters. Doesn't have to be much.

ctrl a
ctrl c
arrow
ctrl v

ctrl a
ctrl c
arrow
ctrl v

do this 20 times and you're done.

Just did this myself. Took me all of 20 seconds to make a 5 MB file.

Windows clipboard crashes at ~ 10MB

5 MB isn't big enough?

No, I am looking for things to compress.

. . . ok, some question here (I study information theory btw). What exactly are you trying to do? Most of the methods here will either have very very low or very very high enthropy which will throw your results waaaaay off if your trying to do anything statistical . . . yet your specifically asking for text. Why?

-Chu

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: Chu

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: silverpig
Open a new text file, type some random characters. Doesn't have to be much.

ctrl a
ctrl c
arrow
ctrl v

ctrl a
ctrl c
arrow
ctrl v

do this 20 times and you're done.

Just did this myself. Took me all of 20 seconds to make a 5 MB file.

Windows clipboard crashes at ~ 10MB

5 MB isn't big enough?

No, I am looking for things to compress.

. . . ok, some question here (I study information theory btw). What exactly are you trying to do? Most of the methods here will either have very very low or very very high enthropy which will throw your results waaaaay off if your trying to do anything statistical . . . yet your specifically asking for text. Why?

-Chu

Trying to find the sweet spot with a buffer when GZIP-ing a file.

 

[Chu]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: Chu

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: silverpig

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: silverpig
Open a new text file, type some random characters. Doesn't have to be much.

ctrl a
ctrl c
arrow
ctrl v

ctrl a
ctrl c
arrow
ctrl v

do this 20 times and you're done.

Just did this myself. Took me all of 20 seconds to make a 5 MB file.

Windows clipboard crashes at ~ 10MB

5 MB isn't big enough?

No, I am looking for things to compress.

. . . ok, some question here (I study information theory btw). What exactly are you trying to do? Most of the methods here will either have very very low or very very high enthropy which will throw your results waaaaay off if your trying to do anything statistical . . . yet your specifically asking for text. Why?

-Chu

Trying to find the sweet spot with a buffer when GZIP-ing a file.

So by text file do we mean english language?

 

[AFB]

Whatever as long as I can read it to make sure it's not FUBAR/

 

[TitanDiddly]

1. Compress your entire MP3 collection
2. Open compressed file in wordpad