Date: Thu, 08 Aug 1996 02:20:38 -0400 From: Gary Chrysler <tcg@ime.net> To: Don Yuniskis <dgy@rtd.com> Cc: James Raynard <fqueries@jraynard.demon.co.uk>, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: perhaps i am just stupid. Message-ID: <32098736.19F1@ime.net> References: <199608080259.TAA26772@seagull.rtd.com>
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Don Yuniskis wrote: > <chomp> > > > But we've already introduced more maintenance work - someone has > > to generate these checksums every time a new release comes out. > > This is a "one liner" in a makefile... no code to write or > maintain to *generate* the checksums... > Building the checksum.sum is done.. Thats easy! > > I do understand why you want to do this in as Unix-like a way as > > possible, but I don't think it's workable. Sorry. > > Yes, I suspect that's the case. I would almost advocate porting > grep and sort just so a UN*X-like approach *could* be employed -- seems > like it would be easier to maintain. > > Porting cksum was a no-brainer. Though I imagine grep *might* be a bit > more involved for some of the funkier switches, etc. I have a full dos port of grep done by I belive Bob Stout! > I think even just having CKSUM.EXE available would be *some* > consolation to those folks that are banging their heads against > the wall wondering why the gunzip is failing, etc. > I won't dissagree! -Enjoy Gary ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Improve America's Knowledge... Share yours The Borg... Where minds meet (207) 929-3848
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