Re: Check if files equal
- Posted by petelomax at blueyonder.co.uk Jul 12, 2002
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{{{ On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 11:37:33 +0800, Derek Parnell <Derek.Parnell at SYD.RABOBANK.COM> wrote:
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The trick will be to create a checksum that is truely representative of the
whole file. You'll probably need a 32-bit checksum for each 2^32 bits
(536,870,912 bytes).
whole file. You'll probably need a 32-bit checksum for each 2^32 bits
(536,870,912 bytes).
Just my $0.02: I'd use md5.
There's a dos/windows version here: http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/ and linux, DLL, & more here: http://userpages.umbc.edu/mabzug1/cs/md5/md5.html
