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Date:      Tue, 18 Dec 2001 18:38:01 +1100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <edwin@mavetju.org>
To:        Undisclosed Name <sysop_blast@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: MD5 Checksum Weirdness
Message-ID:  <20011218183801.N724@k7.mavetju.org>
In-Reply-To: <LAW2-F58mof2gZgPKCn0000749d@hotmail.com>; from sysop_blast@hotmail.com on Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 11:26:28PM -0600
References:  <LAW2-F58mof2gZgPKCn0000749d@hotmail.com>

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On Mon, Dec 17, 2001 at 11:26:28PM -0600, Undisclosed Name wrote:
> Humm, Could someone please tell me why I would be getting a different 
> checksum each time I run /sbin/md5 on the same file? I am running 4.4 and 
> have attemted to verify checksum on a few ISO iamges. One of which being 
> 4.4-install.iso and the results are always wrong but to make matters worse 
> each time I run md5 on the same file I get a different result?

You shouldn't :-)

If you diff the files, maybe you can find out what went wrong (maybe
non-binary filestransfer?)

Edwin
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