Lars Wirzenius <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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. > . > 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.
It's not clear to me, from the description, what the program does that the md5sum and sha1sum utilities do not. -- "If a person keeps faithfully busy each hour of the working day, he can count on waking up some morning to find himself one of the competent ones of his generation." --William James -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
