Re: Checking file integrity
- Posted by Robert Craig <rds at RapidEuphoria.com> Apr 22, 2003
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x x rforno at tutopia.com wrote: > Wouldn't be it possible for Euphoria to return an error report in such a > case, for example with a negative number different from -1 (EOF)? > Maybe I'm wrong, but I think the OS has a variable called errno (under C) > that can be accessed by the user. Couldn't it be used to that end? I'm not aware of any test that I could make that would detect an error on the disk media. Even if there were such a test, would it be worth wasting a couple of machine cycles on *every* byte read by *every* program? I believe that each disk sector has a checksum on it. Perhaps your "Nero" program sees if the checksum is correct. I would have thought that the O/S would complain loudly if a sector were bad (i.e. bad checksum). Regards, Rob Craig Rapid Deployment Software http://www.RapidEuphoria.com