Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!tektronix!reed!omen!caf
From: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Improving SHAR
Message-ID: <688@omen.UUCP>
Date: 6 Jun 88 04:17:53 GMT
References: <2277@rpp386.UUCP> <2349@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Reply-To: caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX)
Organization: Omen Technology Inc, Portland Oregon
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In article <2349@bgsuvax.UUCP> denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (William C. DenBesten) writes:
:
:There is one small problem with this idea, but it is easily solvable.
:There is not a standard unix utility that will do a crc.  We
:would have to ship one around the net.  Not having the crc program
:would not be a real hardship, as one could always unwrap a shar by
:creating a fake crc program and ignoring the insuing crc error warnings.
:
Why not use the "crc" program that's port of the recent rzsz (ZMODEM
programs for Unix) posting?  It produces output like:

92C4A5DF    2064 /tmp/article1659

using the Fed standard 32 bit that ZMODEM uses.

Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX          ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf 
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