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From: dce@mips.COM (David Elliott)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions
Subject: Sum history
Message-ID: <1451@quacky.mips.COM>
Date: 1 Feb 88 20:08:44 GMT
Organization: MIPS Computer Systems, Sunnyvale, CA
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Does anyone know why sum on System V-based systems produces
different results by default than sum on BSD-based systems?

I notice also that System V sum has a -r option for using an
alternate algorithm, which generates the same results as the
BSD sum.

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David Elliott		dce@mips.com  or  {ames,prls,pyramid,decwrl}!mips!dce