sha1sum for Windows XP; shell choices

[John Summerfied]

Robert L Cochran wrote:
> A friend of mine who wants to install Fedora Core 4 for the first time 
> is wondering if the sha1sum program can be used from Microsoft Windows 
> XP. Can it?

Not unless he (or his helper) can build it for Windows. Likely Google 
can find the binaries.




> Also, can the friend install a different shell than bash?

He can. Why does he want to? (they're all fairly unfriendly to 
beginners), and cmd.exe from Windows probably won't help.




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