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Subject: Re: Crafty 14.1 makes a horrible blunder

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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