From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Aug 21 12:15:49 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from pop.hccnet.nl (pop.hccnet.nl [193.172.127.94]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3EBC437B7DD for ; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 12:15:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parmenides.utp.net by pop.hccnet.nl via uds179-124.dial.hccnet.nl [193.173.124.179] with ESMTP id VAA16057 (8.8.5/1.13); Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:15:36 +0200 (MET DST) Received: from localhost (janko@localhost) by parmenides.utp.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA01510; Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:17:19 GMT (envelope-from janko@parmenides.utp.net) Date: Mon, 21 Aug 2000 21:17:18 +0000 (GMT) From: Janko van Roosmalen To: Greg Hormann-GJ/PGI Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: checksum for win98 and FreeBSD In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Install Samba on the FreeBSD machine and they just can copy the file. They can use the old DOS program "fc" to check if the files are exactly the same. Janko On Sat, 19 Aug 2000, Greg Hormann-GJ/PGI wrote: > Bit of an odd question. I need to develop a process for transferring Files from > Win98 boxes to FreeBSD machines. (e.g FTP) Business requirements dictate that > the users must be able to verify that the transferred file is exactly the same > as the source. My first thought was do run a checksum problem on both files and > verify the results match. > > Questions: > > 1) Anybody have a better (not too expensive) solution. > > 2) Anybody know of a cheep checksum program for Win98 that will produced results > compatible with a checksum program on FreeBSD? > > Thanks, > > Greg. > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message