Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!ames!mailrus!iuvax!rutgers!njin!princeton!phoenix!jwbirdsa From: jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (James Webster Birdsall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: CRC checksums Keywords: CRC checksums computation algorithms Message-ID: <5303@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 11 Jan 89 03:36:48 GMT Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 17 Can somebody either tell me or point me to references on how to compute a CRC checksum for a block of characters? Fast algorithms would be much appreciated. :-) Thanks... ======================================================================== ! James W. Birdsall Compu$erve: 71261,1731 ! ! jwbirdsa@phoenix.Princeton.EDU jwbirdsa@bogey.Princeton.EDU ! ! jwbirdsa@pucc.BITNET ...allegra!princeton!phoenix!jwbirdsa! ======================================================================== ! When God wrote the Universe, He did so in C on a UNIX system, which ! ! is why it took him six all-nighters and he slept all day afterward. ! ! However, it _has_ been functioning without patching for somewhat ! ! more than four billion years now... ! ========================================================================