>Carl Lowenstein wrote:
> > Date: Tue, 16 Apr 2002 09:55:58 -0400
> > From: "Jerome H. Fine" <jhfinepw4z_at_compsys.to>
> > Organization: Just Sufficient
> > X-Accept-Language: en
> > To: "William R. Buckley" <hhacker_at_ev1.net>,
> > "classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org" <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
> > Subject: Download CD images for RSX-11 and RT-11 Freeware CDs from Tim Shoppa
> > It took a week of trying, but I have finally downloaded all three CD
> > images for RSX-11 and RT-11 from:
> > ftp://ftp.trailing-edge.com/pub/cd-images/
> > Note also that the file MD5SUMS seems to contain checksum
> > values, but I don't know how to use these values or produce them
> > myself to check if my files are correct. Can anyone help?
> There is a program "md5sum" that comes with GNU textutils. It
> will run on most Unix or Unix-like systems. I suspect that with
> a fair amount of effort it could be made to run on RT11, compiled
> with DECUS C, but I haven't really looked at that..
Jerome Fine replies:
NOT necessary!! I was very fortunate to have pointed out to me:
http://www.fourmilab.ch/md5/
at which point I clicked on "md5.zip", downloaded that file, UnZipped
and used MD5.EXE to generate the MD5 values.
So I have a question! If my MD5 values are identical to the corresponding
MD5 values in MD5SUMS, can I assume that I have received three
identical images?
> When you run mda5sum on a file it produces a 32-hex-digit "message digest".
> This should match the one that you downloaded from the original source.
Been there now. Done that! Does anyone on a low speed
connection want a copy? I think my blanks are about $ 0.75
each and the labels plus envelope about the same! Postage
and shipping carton are extra which I can find out.
Sincerely yours,
Jerome Fine
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Received on Wed Apr 17 2002 - 22:30:08 BST