On Fri, Nov 09, 2007 at 09:05:58PM +0000, Andrew Coppin wrote: > The MD5SUM.EXE file I have chokes if you ask it to hash a file in another > directory. It will hash from stdin, or from a file in the current > directory, but point-blank refuses to hash anything else. So I'd have to > write my Haskell code to open the file I want and *pipe* it to stdin on > MD5SUM.EXE (making sure to not translate line ends or anything else that > will alter the hash code). Then I have to parse the output and change it to > actually match the UNIX md5sum program. [Because I want to make it > compatible with that.] That also involves some fun with line ends...
I'm drawing a blank on the windows API, but at least in DOS it was possible to redirect standard input from a file without involving your program. Stefan
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