How to auto save filenames incrementally

[Mumford68]

Hello. I have played a little with Basic a long long time ago but no real programming experience. I am having some issues with the MFT of my hard drive and would like to see what changes occur if I could take up the space of the MFT not in use by saving a file, I was thinking something simle like the NOTEPAD.exe file with WINXP Home so that I can create a 0byte file and then increment several thousand or perhaps even a hundred thousand times.

Basically I would like to create and save a 0byte file, I.E. save1.txt then save2.txt then save3.txt... save 100000.txt but I am not sure of the command to use to call up the a save command and how to execute it much less automatically increment the names.

Any help is appreciated. I have spent some time Googling this but have not found anything for my specific issue.

Take care,
Mumford68

[Rabbit]

Since you're using Windows, you can run javascript and vbscript natively. I would pick whichever one you're more comfortable with and find a tutorial on that. Alternatively, you could use a batch script.

[Mumford68]

I apologize for not mentioning that a batch file would be perfect and is something I have searched for online as well as playing in DOS a bit however I don't know quite how to put it together. I think I would have a better chance of doing it myself if I could find out the command/file to use/call/pointto in WinXP Home.

Thank you for the response,
Mumford68

[Rabbit]

Basically, use a loop and copy the same file over and over using the counter in the name of the file.

[Mumford68]

I can appreciate how simple it is. Unfortunately I have not been able to find out how to do that :) After looking through the help file in DOS and looking through the executable files in \windows\system 32 and searching the net I have not been able to find the files or commands that allow me to accomplish the simple feat which is why I have now resorted to this forum. I had noticed a few entries using VBasic and I think it was JAVA but required installing programs in addition to the already installed WinXp Home.

I thought if I could find the command that the system uses to save files I could perhaps find the command to increment or loop as you mentioned but so far I have had no joy.

If I could find a web site with specifics or someone can state the commands or procedures I need to accomplish this simple task I could go from there :)

I've been playing around with it as a simple batch file but so far I am lost. I tried to use the CALL feature but that apparently is not intended to run programs but rather other batch files plus I do not know how to use a batch file to continually increment a saved file name.