I wrote earlier,
> I have been running "md5sum" at the cmd prompt on a Win XP box
> (which happens to be where my CD-RW is installed) and it is
> already there. Did not have to install anything.
This info, in fact, is probably wrong. Looking through my paper files,
from OpenCD, there is available a 48KB file "md5sum.exe"
which goes into \winnt\system32. I apparently had already d/l this
file and put it there manually. Look at //theopencd.sunsite.dk/md5.php
> Which brings up a question. The md5sum value will be different
> for files that are different by even one byte, but how much of a
> variation in the md5sum value itself will occur for such a small
> difference in the files themselves. In other words, can you tell
> immediately (a big difference) when comparing the two sums,
> or will it be a much more subtle difference? (too lazy to actually
> try and test it. Guess I could tar up some big files, add a text file,
> then edit the file to change one letter and tar it again, and
compare.)
Tnx Doug for reply, I thought it would be radically different.
- Bob sent 1136 est
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