Hi :) Wow!! Thanks :) That sounds reasonably easy and "do-able". I have to pop out but hopefully Tim can let us know how it's gone if he gets time to try it out.
many thanks and regards from Tom :) >________________________________ > From: James Knott <james.kn...@rogers.com> >To: LibreOffice <users@global.libreoffice.org> >Sent: Sunday, 21 October 2012, 16:23 >Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] North American DVD 3.5.6 > >Tom Davies wrote: >> Hi :) >> That does sound hugely useful but please could you let us know the name of >> the utility you used? If it was for a particular DE i'm sure we could work >> out the name for another DE if we need to. Just knowing the name of 1 would >> help! >> >> Also any suggestions on how to use the utility? If it's command-line only i >> think it's still possible even for us point&click users but we could use a >> little guidance. Errr, i'm still not in the NA Dvd team but am still >> interested in how to generate an Md5sum. >> Many thanks and regards from >> Tom :) >> > >In Linux, it's called "md5sum". As for Windows, Google on "Windows md5sum" to >find utilities you can download. > >Here's a list of the directory where I downloaded openSUSE: > >jknott@linux:~/download/suse/12_2 $ ls -l >total 8903692 >-rw-r--r-- 1 jknott users 126 Sep 16 14:41 md5sum >-rw-r--r-- 1 jknott users 4448059392 Sep 16 14:24 openSUSE-12.2-DVD-i586.iso >-rw-r--r-- 1 jknott users 4669308928 Sep 16 14:22 openSUSE-12.2-DVD-x86_64.iso > >The md5sum file contains: > >26dd6c187f743f3af0cbb31eed138a07 openSUSE-12.2-DVD-x86_64.iso >0373980cd6f270e1172067b86c044633 openSUSE-12.2-DVD-i586.iso > > >If I run the command md5sum -c md5sum, I get: > >openSUSE-12.2-DVD-x86_64.iso: OK >openSUSE-12.2-DVD-i586.iso: OK > >This shows both files match their md5sum. > > >If I run the command md5sum openSUSE-12.2-DVD-x86_64.iso, I get: > >26dd6c187f743f3af0cbb31eed138a07 openSUSE-12.2-DVD-x86_64.iso > >This matches the value from the web site, and shows the file is OK. > > >The thing about md5sums is that a small change in the file results in a large >change in the file's md5sum. This means that you don't have to check every >character. If a few at each end are correct, then in all probability the file >is OK. > >As I mentioned, disc burner software will generally display the md5sum of a >file before you burn the disc. Just check that against the md5sum from the >web site. There may be graphical utilities available, but I haven't had the >need to use them as the command line utility is so easy to use. > > > >-- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org >Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ >Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette >List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ >All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > > > > -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
