From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 21 6: 6:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from fbsd01.granitepost.com (fbsd01.granitepost.com [209.150.104.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DE6C837B422 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 06:06:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from thunder (thunder.granitepost.com [209.150.104.140]) by fbsd01.granitepost.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA10442 for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:47:50 -0400 (EDT) From: "Clarence Brown" To: Subject: RE: checksum for win98 and FreeBSD Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 09:09:12 -0400 Message-ID: <002a01c00b71$00d76520$8c6896d1@granitepost.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2173.0 In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.50.4133.2400 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Behalf Of Greg Hormann-GJ/PGI > Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2000 7:28 PM > > Bit of an odd question. I need to develop a process for > transferring Files from > Win98 boxes to FreeBSD machines. (e.g FTP) Business > requirements dictate that > the users must be able to verify that the transferred file is > exactly the same > as the source. My first thought was do run a checksum > problem on both files and > verify the results match. > > Questions: > > 1) Anybody have a better (not too expensive) solution. > > 2) Anybody know of a cheep checksum program for Win98 that > will produced results > compatible with a checksum program on FreeBSD? > You could use a ZIP program because they provide facilities to test the integrity of a zip file. ZIP utilities are available on both PC and -NIX. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message