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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.programmer
Subject: Re: crc functions
Keywords: ccitt
Message-ID: <1990Mar7.121854.5726@virtech.uucp>
Date: 7 Mar 90 12:18:54 GMT
References: <8548@netcom.UUCP>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
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In article <8548@netcom.UUCP> allanh@netcom.UUCP (Allan N. Hessenflow) writes:
>
>$41 76 03 01 00 09 has a crc of 37fb, while
>$41 76 03 01 00 08 has a crc of 37fa.

>Is this normal for the CCITT CRC, or is the function I'm using faulty?  I'm
>fairly certain it's not a coding/translation error, as I've tried two
>different functions from the same document with the same results.

Maybe I am being real thick this morning, but why do you expect the CRCs to
be the same?  I would hope that the CRCs are different when the data is 
different.

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