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From: cagney@chook.ua.oz (Andrew Cagney - aka Noid)
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Subject: Re: How are crc's computed?
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Date: 29 Oct 90 22:39:13 GMT
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From article <1990Oct29.094917@mobius.Viewlogic.COM>, by greg@mobius.Viewlogic.COM (Gregory Larkin):
> Hi all,
> 
> I was unpacking my 1.3->1.5.10 upgrade kit the other day and noticed
> that there are files with .crc and .crcdif extensions in each one.
> 
> How are the values of each number calculated (i.e. with what program).
> It doesn't seem to be the sum(1) program (at least not the one I have).
> Is there a "crc" program that I can get from an FTP site to check these
> numbers?
> 

The programs you are looking for are:
	crc	- list crc's of files, left out of 1.3 by mestake :-(
or much better:
	ccrc, check_crc, duck...
		- Wim's crc's sucessor able to quickly list & check crc's
They are on the same ftp site as the patches.

					Noid