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Subject: Re: Help !!!! Corrupted Nailmov Table Bases

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 02:56:31 01/04/02

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On January 04, 2002 at 05:17:39, Andrew Williams wrote:

>On January 04, 2002 at 04:14:49, Steve Wilkins wrote:
>
>>
>> Fritz 7 will not load because 1 or more of the 290 Nalimov TBs that I have are
>>corrupted. Is there any program that I can load within Fritz or on the command
>>line with some params that can tell me which ones are corrupt so I can
>>redownload them again to solve the problem.
>>
>>                                                       TIA    Steve
>
>This will be helpful if you downloaded the TBs from Robert Hyatt's ftp site:
>
>The TB directories on Hyatt's server all have a file called md5sum in them.
>This contains "signatures" for each TB file. On my Linux system, there's
>a program (also called md5sum) which will go through the md5sum data file
>and check every TB file to ensure that it is correct. I would guess that
>there is an equivalent Windows program. Perhaps you might search the web
>for "md5sum for Windows" or something similar.

More often than not, you can just look at the file sizes.  Usually, a file or
files will be the wrong size.

If all the files are the same size, then you could use the md5sums



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