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From: hutch@sdcsvax.UCSD.EDU (Jim Hutchison)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: ... (and uuencode mess-ups)
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Date: Wed, 7-Jan-87 21:54:24 EST
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Posted: Wed Jan  7 21:54:24 1987
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fig()

Since uuen/decode do not do checksums, how about something as simple as
using a shar with wc built into it.  That way the check travels with the
data.  Admittedly not as good as a CRC, which I can send out source for a
simple program that does stdin to stdout and makes sure that the CRC equals
argv[1] (spews on stderr if a match does not occur).  Better than wc, but
not as automatic.
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