From: utzoo!decvax!ittvax!swatt
Newsgroups: net.news
Title: Does sum work the same on all machines?
Article-I.D.: ittvax.352
Posted: Mon Jun 21 15:09:13 1982
Received: Thu Jun 24 02:07:20 1982


I want to find out if sum(1) works the same on all UNIX  machines
for  use  in  generating edit scripts (such as news updates) that
first check the target to see if it's the same  as  was  used  to
generate the edit script.  

We run 4.1bsd on a VAX and if I do:

	sum def.h

to the sources for 2.7 netnews, I get:

	60683     3

If anyone out there on a different machine/system would take  the
time  to  run  this  command  and tell me if they get a different
answer, I'd appreciate it.  

	- Alan S. Watt
	(decvax!ittvax!swatt)