Quickly create large file on a Windows system

Question

In the same vein as Quickly create a large file on a Linux system, I\'d like to quickly create a large file on a Windows system. By large I\'m thinking 5 GB.

Answer 1

You can try this C++ code:

#include
#include
#include
#include
#using namespace std;

int main()
{
    int a;
    ofstream fcout ("big_file.txt");
    for(;;a += 1999999999){
        do{
            fcout << a;
        }
        while(!a);
    }
}

Maybe it will take some time to generate depending on your CPU speed...