Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!princeton!udel!rochester!bbn!uwmcsd1!ig!agate!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!root 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 Lines: 22 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) OS|2 -- an Operating System for puppets. #include