to, 2006-05-11 kello 07:13 -0700, Ben Pfaff kirjoitti: > It's not clear to me, from the description, what the program does > that the md5sum and sha1sum utilities do not.
It handles .dsc, .changes, and Sources files. But I also forgot to mention the main reason I wrote it: it gives progress feedback and has some convenience features. An updated suggestion for a long description, which also incorporates Thijs's suggestion to reorder paragraphs: summain computes and checks files against such checksums. It supports both MD5 and SHA-1 checksums, using formats compatible with the md5sum and sha1sum utilities, both for reading and writing. In addition, it can read and verify checksums from Debian .dsc, .changes, and Sources files. . Apart from supporting more file formats, summain differs from the traditional md5sum and sha1sum utilities by providing progress reporting, and via convenience features such as automatic recursion into directories, and looking up files relative to the location of the checksum file, rather than the current working directory. . A checksum is a number that identifies the contents of a file: if the contents change, so does the checksum. If you create a checksum before you burn a CD, when you know the files are correct, you can easily check the CD at any time: just compute the checksum again and see if they have changed. I hope this is better. -- RFC 1437 - yet another MIME specification Microsoft ignores -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
