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From: root@cca.ucsf.edu.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: Improving SHAR
Summary: the "vitals" utility fills the bill?
Message-ID: <1277@ucsfcca.ucsf.edu>
Date: 3 Jun 88 19:05:01 GMT
References: <2277@rpp386.UUCP> <2349@bgsuvax.UUCP>
Organization: Computer Center, UCSF
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Posted: Fri Jun  3 15:05:01 1988

In article <2349@bgsuvax.UUCP>, denbeste@bgsuvax.UUCP (William C. DenBesten) writes:
>  ...
> The solution that everyone seems to be stabbing near, but not hitting
> is that we need a shar-archiver that includes a crc check in it,
> rather than a simple character count.
> ...
> 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 already have it.

The "vitals" utility posted to comp.sources.unix, Volume 11 provides
crc computation in addition to the length check.  There was also an earlier
posting of a crc routine that we have used extensively for such a purpose.

Thos Sumner       (thos@cca.ucsf.edu)   BITNET:  thos@ucsfcca
(The I.G.)        (...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf!thos)

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