bsrdp@warwick.ac.uk (Hylton Boothroyd) (02/28/89)
In article <5738@bsu-cs.UUCP> hslrswi!naz@mcvax.cwi.nl (Norman H. Azadian) writes: >The 32-bit CRC routine was donated by kind souls on the net. I have >tweaked it for my use, principally by adding inline optimized assembly >code for my PC. I don't pretend to know what is going on inside, and I >regard it as a minor miracle that it actually produces the same numbers >on PCs as on VAXen. and Rahul Dhesi writes: >Will also give byte counts, and total checksum for all files. Doesn't >take wildcards on command line, but "stuff . | chksum -v --" worked >well for me. Although the arc'ed file verified after downloading, all I get when I invoke it on drive b: is a permanently spinning drive and no response to Ctrl-Alt-Del. Visual inspection of the file suggests it ought to display a help screen with `chksum -h'. It doesn't. The configuration I have is MSDOS 3.20 on an XT clone with Hercules type screen and a fair sprinkling of TSR's, several from c.b.i.p. ---