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RE: Linux v. Microsoft MD5SUMS



Under Windows NT Workstation, I get:
a75c7207e00a30f97a3cc4107fc5d88e  md5sum.exe

Under an i386 Potato box I get:
799812dfc33eeeb8c28d53b7469f7197  md5sum.exe

> -----Original Message-----
> From: J.A. Bezemer [mailto:costar@panic.et.tudelft.nl]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2000 2:57 PM
> To: Brooks R. Robinson
> Cc: Debian-Cd
> Subject: Re: Linux v. Microsoft MD5SUMS
> 
> 
> 
> On Wed, 24 May 2000, Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
> 
> > Greetings,
> > 	Since I don't have a ROM burner at home, and I have access 
> to one at work,
> > I burn all my images at work.  Consequently, I am relegated to 
> the Microsoft
> > Environment.  So, when I resync my images, it's done under NT 
> workstation.
> > I don't know much about MD5SUMS, but they seems to be different 
> given Linux
> > v. Microsoft?  Why is this?  Is there something to compensate?
> 
> This should not be. I suppose you use the `md5sum.exe' of the 
> Pseudo-Image Kit
> (http://cdimage.debian.org/~costar/pseudo-image-kit/), and otherwise you
> should try that one. For example `md5sum md5sum.exe' should give 
> exactly the
> same result on Linux and Windows. If it doesn't, please report 
> back and tell
> me both md5sum outputs. 
> 
> 
> Regards,
>   Anne Bezemer
> 
> 



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