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Re: A note on vendor reaction speed to the e=3 problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Rose)
Thu Sep 28 21:49:23 2006
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Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:13:15 -0700
To: "Leichter, Jerry" <leichter_jerrold@emc.com>
From: Greg Rose <ggr@qualcomm.com>
Cc: "Travis H." <solinym@gmail.com>, Taral <taralx@gmail.com>,
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At 14:33 -0400 2006/09/28, Leichter, Jerry wrote:
>|
>VMS has for years had a simple CHECKSUM command, which had a variant,
>CHECKSUM/IMAGE, applicable only to executable image files. It knew
>enough about the syntax of executables to skip over irrelevant metadata
>like link date and time. (The checksums computed weren't cryptographic
>- at least the last time I used it, many years ago. The command was
>created to use in patches to provide a quick verification that the file
>being patched was "the right one".) I've always found it surprising
>that no one seems to have developed similar tools for Unix - with the
>Gnu libraries for portable access to object/ executable files, it could
>be done relatively easily.
The "sum" command has existed in Unixes since before VMS existed.
Checksum has too many characters in the name ;-).
Greg.
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