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Re: [ANNOUNCE] GNU fileutils 4.1


From: cyrus
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GNU fileutils 4.1
Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 07:41:35 -0700
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On Sat, May 26, 2001 at 12:58:48AM -0700, Matt Schalit wrote:
] 
] I think you snipped out and are not addressing the
] essential point of his method which a gave a checksum
] on every byte so that one bad byte could not invalidate an
] entire hard drive.
] 
] I don't know where you get your md5sum.  I have
] the latest GNU textutils installed and that
] 
]       md5sum --version == 2.0.13
] 
] and I don't have and -C filename.txt option.
] 
] 
] I think your example would compute only one checksum,
] but I can't check, so why not tell us, hmmmm?
] 
] Regards,
] Matthew

I believe Paul's suggestion was that md5sum be modified to support
the "-C" option, rather than modify dd to support internal checksumming.
It doesn't currently exist.

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