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From: rbj@uunet.UU.NET (Root Boy Jim)
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Subject: Re: Unpack and checksum
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Date: 18 Mar 91 20:10:03 GMT
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(Larry Wall) writes:
?I haven't tried to reproduce the BSD sum algorithm in Perl, since
?it's not portable.

What's not portable about it?
The algorithm, or its implementation in perl?
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