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From: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Useful new program and 1.3 checksums
Message-ID: <1461@ast.cs.vu.nl>
Date: 4 Oct 88 10:06:07 GMT
References: <1443@ast.cs.vu.nl> <430@gonzo.UUCP> <147@nlgvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: ast@cs.vu.nl (Andy Tanenbaum)
Organization: VU Informatica, Amsterdam
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In article <147@nlgvax.UUCP> johan@nlgvax.UUCP (Johan Stevenson) writes:
>The big question is: can we standardize on either crc(1) or inodes(1)?
I think we should use crc.  What I want to be able to do is go to a
directory on one machine and type:
    crc *
and then do it on another machine, and then run diff on the two files.
This tells which files differ.  If uids and other stuff are present, the
two files may differ on the other stuff, and it is a lot of work to 
figure out if the data are the same.

Inodes is a perhaps useful program, but not for this application.
While we are on the subject of inodes, it would be useful to have a program
that allowed one to interactively edit an i-node.  V7 actually had such a
program (called lsi, as I recall).  It is useful for repairing sick disks.

Andy Tanenbaum (ast@cs.vu.nl)