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From: Robert Nordier <rnordier@iafrica.com>
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Subject: Re: perhaps i am just stupid.
To: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis)
Date: Wed, 7 Aug 1996 16:16:24 +0200 (SAT)
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In-Reply-To: <199608071139.EAA17578@seagull.rtd.com> from "Don Yuniskis" at Aug 7, 96 04:39:13 am
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Don Yuniskis wrote:

> It seems that Gary Chrysler said:
> 
[...]
> >          cksum %1.?? > %1.tmp
> >          comp %1.sum %1.tmp
> > 
> > I belive this is what you meant. (That is if all the binarys have a
> >  two digit extension)
> 
> But, it will hose you if foo.xx exists, etc.
>  
> > 	cksum %1.* > %1.tmp
> > Would cause the .tmp and .sum to be cksum'ed.
> > 
> > 	cksum %1.0* > %1.tmp
> > Whats the        ^.. for??

A "cksum %1.0*" won't work because the files have alpha extensions:
"bin.aa" to "bin.cq", if memory serves.

However there seems to be another underlying assumption: that MS-DOS
expands wildcards in alpha-sorted sequence.  It doesn't.  File
"bin.bz" (say) may just as well be processed before "bin.aa".  So
a "comp" without an intervening "sort" won't work.

Another complication: DOS "sort" is little-used, broken, and may
not be in the PATH.

--
Robert Nordier