Re: Md5 Checksums re: zoot-386i.iso

[Prentice Bisbal <pbisbal pppl gov>]

cksum prints the CRC checksum anf byte count of the file. For md5sums do 

md5sum <filename>

see the cksum and md5sum man pages for more...

On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, John P. Verel wrote:
> Hi.  I went to the download site where I got zoot-i386.iso and printed
> the Md5 checksums.  I then ran cksum (under RH 6.1) and got a print
> out that was completely different from the one from the Purdue site:
> The Purdue site was 31 digits in length, my result was 20, counting an
> embedded blank.  Obviously, the two numbers bore no resemblance to
> each other.
> 
> Did I do this correctly?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> John
> 
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