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From: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (Wm E. Davidsen Jr)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: SCAN 66 Validation Issues
Message-ID: <1489@sixhub.UUCP>
Date: 17 Aug 90 01:17:23 GMT
References: <900813155152.AJR@cup.protal.com>
Reply-To: davidsen@sixhub.UUCP (bill davidsen)
Organization: *IX Public Access UNIX, Schenectady NY
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In article <900813155152.AJR@cup.protal.com> Alan_J_Roberts@cup.portal.com writes:

| 	For those who disfavor this approach, we will still support
| SENTRY and continue its distribution.  SENTRY performs a similar
| validation, only instead of attaching the codes directly to the
| validated programs, it maintains a separate log file for its
| comparisions.  

  For those who want to be SURE, boot from floppy and check all your
files with brik. It will flag files with bad or missing CRCs, and if you
boot from (write protected) floppy you will be on a clean system.

  How long does it take to validate everything? And how long to reload
from backup?
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