[comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d] chksum ... has this worked for anyone?

hartung@amos.ling.ucsd.edu (Jeff Hartung) (03/03/89)

I have tried CHKSUM on 3 different XTs now, two clones and one
authentic IBM PC, yet I have not seen it work right even once yet.  All
it does is hang the system and force me to cold boot, or sometimes it
causes the machine to reboot itself!  I would really like this program
if it would work, but I can't tell if it's something I am doing wrong,
or if it just won't work on the machines I've tried it on so far.

Also, this, and a number of other programs that were posted about the
same time, came with no documentation at all.  Not even a README file.
This makes troubleshooting near impossible.  (Is it hardware
requirements?   Syntax errors?  Etc.?)  Everyone posting should put at
least a one paragraph README file in the archive before posting it.

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