Author: Keith Ian Price
Date: 21:42:35 11/23/97
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On November 23, 1997 at 20:11:01, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >the problem is that "quick checksum" is an oxymoron when you have the 5 >piece >files as well. try reading thru 2.5 gigs and checksumming each file... >and the >flag will fall before the first move is made. :) > >simplest solution is to watch the sizes... I will try to dream up some >sort >of "certificaton maybe... such as reading the first/last byte of each >file >and checking it or some such thing... That with a check of the file size would do quite well I think, since it would not be a check to see if the files were deliberately altered, or hacked. Merely a check to see if Monolith Software's latest operating system has corrupted them during one of its recent crashes. :>) kp
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