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From: dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: news.software.b
Subject: Re: checksums in news
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Date: 25 Jul 90 20:10:36 GMT
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I wrote a program called "brik" (see comp.sources.misc from last year)
that is being used for checksums in a couple of newsgroups
(comp.binaries.ibm.pc, comp.binaries.os2).  It deals properly with
lines of text, so that the checksum remains valid after newline
conversions;  it also gracefully allows for changes in headers, as only
text following a Checksum: line is used.  It's probably quite easy to
incorporate a brik-like protocol into news.  Somebody has to do it,
though.
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Rahul Dhesi <dhesi%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com>
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