Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!warwick!bsrdp
From: bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Hylton Boothroyd)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: v01i144: chksum, 32-bit file checksumming program
Summary: Hangs on an XT clone under MSDOS 3.20
Message-ID: <1757@sol.warwick.ac.uk>
Date: 27 Feb 89 20:04:04 GMT
References: <5738@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Reply-To: bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Hylton Boothroyd)
Organization: Warwick Business School
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In article <5738@bsu-cs.UUCP> hslrswi!naz@mcvax.cwi.nl (Norman H. Azadian) writes:
>The 32-bit CRC routine was donated by kind souls on the net.  I have
>tweaked it for my use, principally by adding inline optimized assembly
>code for my PC. I don't pretend to know what is going on inside, and I
>regard it as a minor miracle that it actually produces the same numbers
>on PCs as on VAXen.

and Rahul Dhesi writes:
>Will also give byte counts, and total checksum for all files.  Doesn't
>take wildcards on command line, but "stuff . | chksum -v --" worked
>well for me.

Although the arc'ed file verified after downloading, all I get when I
invoke it on drive b: is a permanently spinning drive and no response
to Ctrl-Alt-Del.

Visual inspection of the file suggests it ought to display a help
screen with `chksum -h'.  It doesn't.

The configuration I have is MSDOS 3.20 on an XT clone with Hercules
type screen and a fair sprinkling of TSR's, several from c.b.i.p.

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