On February 25, 2002 02:00 pm, Tim Wunder wrote:
> I just wanna make sure that what I understand to be true is, in fact, true.
> If I burn a .iso file to CD, then do "dd if=/dev/cdrom of=<somefile>.iso
> bs=1k", then do "md5sum <somefile>.iso", the output should be the same
> as the md5sum of the original file. If not, then I have a bad burn. I

Wouldn't it be simpler to use the cmp command instead of md5'ing both of them 
and then comparing the md5sums?  cmp myfile.iso /dev/cdrom

David Aikema
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