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From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: net.sources.bugs
Subject: Re: Posting sources that work
Message-ID: <246@omen.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 16-Oct-85 15:25:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 16 15:25:57 1985
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Reply-To: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Organization: Omen Technology, Portland
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Summary: 

In article <2115@brl-tgr.ARPA> w8sdz@brl-tgr.ARPA (Keith B. Petersen (WSMR) <w8sdz>) writes:
>It must certainly be possible with current technology to have
>some automatic method of doing a checksum or crc check as one
>"unshars".  I remember seeing some postings which did this until
>someone complained that their version of Unix didn't have the
>necessary checksum program.   ...

Some sh archive programs use wc to check the number of lines in the file
after it is unpacked.  It is semi useful because many of the files have a
line added at the end for some reason.  Perhaps a shell archiver that
makes sure each file ends with a linefeed would do the trick.

BTW, why was sum changed for SYS III?  Isn't that tantamount to:
New crypt. See /usr/news/crypt.
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