Re[2]: Check if files equal

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> On Mon, 8 Jul 2002 11:37:33 +0800, Derek Parnell
> <Derek.Parnell at SYD.RABOBANK.COM> wrote:

> <snip>
>>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).

> 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

There's also a Euphoria implementation of md5 by Davi Figueiredo here:
http://davitf.n3.net/

Thomas Parslow (PatRat)
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