diff -r 000000000000 -r 1918ee327afb config.tests/unix/padstring
--- /dev/null	Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000
+++ b/config.tests/unix/padstring	Mon Jan 11 14:00:40 2010 +0000
@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+LEN="$1"
+STR="$2"
+PAD='\0'
+STRLEN=`echo $STR | wc -c`
+RES="$STR"
+    
+EXTRALEN=`expr $LEN - $STRLEN`
+while [ "$EXTRALEN" -gt 32 ]; do
+   RES="$RES$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD$PAD"
+   EXTRALEN=`expr $EXTRALEN - 32`
+done
+while [ "$EXTRALEN" -gt 0 ]; do
+   RES="$RES$PAD"
+   EXTRALEN=`expr $EXTRALEN - 1`
+done
+cat <<EOF
+$RES
+EOF
+
+