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From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" <danny@panda.hilink.com.au>
To: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au>
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Subject: Re: CRC-16 algorithms?
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On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Michael Smith wrote:

> 
> (Yes, this is FreeBSD-related 8)
> 
> I'm looking for any implementations of various CRC-16 polynomials; I'm
> trying to compute a checksum for a parameter save area for a
> peripheral, which is documented as "CRC-16", but no details of the
> polynomial are given. 8(

I'm sure there would be something in a Dr Dobbs sources backissue.  Is 
there an index for Dr Dobbs?

I think there was an implementation given in an Australian Personal 
Computer in 1989. It was in C.  I had fun at the time hand-compiling it, 
but my XT of the time is no longer...

Danny