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From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net>
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To: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com>
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Subject: Re: perhaps i am just stupid.
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Don Yuniskis wrote:
>
	<chomp> 
>
> > But we've already introduced more maintenance work - someone has
> > to generate these checksums every time a new release comes out.
> 
> This is a "one liner" in a makefile...  no code to write or
> maintain to *generate* the checksums...
>

Building the checksum.sum is done.. Thats easy! 

> > I do understand why you want to do this in as Unix-like a way as
> > possible, but I don't think it's workable.  Sorry.
> 
> Yes, I suspect that's the case.  I would almost advocate porting
> grep and sort just so a UN*X-like approach *could* be employed -- seems
> like it would be easier to maintain.
> 
> Porting cksum was a no-brainer.  Though I imagine grep *might* be a bit
> more involved for some of the funkier switches, etc.

I have a full dos port of grep done by I belive Bob Stout!

> I think even just having CKSUM.EXE available would be *some*
> consolation to those folks that are banging their heads against
> the wall wondering why the gunzip is failing, etc.
> 

I won't dissagree!


-Enjoy
Gary
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