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From: DHASKIN@CLARKU.BITNET (Denis W. Haskin, Manager, Technical Services)
Newsgroups: comp.os.vms
Subject: Re: CHECKSUM
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Date: Thu, 11-Jun-87 11:05:00 EDT
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Posted: Thu Jun 11 11:05:00 1987
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> From:         "Daniel J. Graham" <GRAHAM@DRCVAX>
>
> Greetings and Gropings:
>
> I stumbled on the verb CHECKSUM today.  Now, I admit only to limited
> experience with VAX verbs of the esoteric sort.  I assume that CHECKSUM is
> supposed to give a checksum value for a file or image.  when i run it, it
> prompts for a filename, then comes back to the prompt with no further
> information.
>
> I suppose that I'm making a stupid, obvious mistake, but I'm blind to it.
> Could someone please tell me how to get it to work???

O$ checksum login.com
O$ show sym checksum$checksum
  CHECKSUM$CHECKSUM = "850439196"
O$
O$ checksum/file login.com
O$ show sym checksum$checksum
  CHECKSUM$CHECKSUM = "850439196"
O$
O$ checksum/image [.bitnet]daytype.exe
file STAFF$ROOT:[DHASKIN.BITNET]DAYTYPE.EXE;3
image section %D'1' checksum is %X'3C025D03'
image section %D'2' checksum is %X'0FB23CC8'
image section %D'3' checksum is %X'42081862'
image header checksum is %X'584C225F'
checksum of all image sections is %X'71B879A9'
O$ show sym checksum$checksum
  CHECKSUM$CHECKSUM = "1907915177"
O$
O$ logox

- Denis