Vlad, It you would have been more helpful if you had explained what each of your commands did or preferably sent Chris off to someplace where he could glean more information on md5 checksums.
Spewing out UNIX commands like that only helps at widening the gap between "us" in the *nix world and "them" in Windows world. Best Regards, Michael Aghayere Robot Support Ultimate Real Robots http://www.realrobots.co.uk > -----Original Message----- > From: Vlad Tsyrklevich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: 12 February 2003 23:51 > To: Chris Berry > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: MD5 Syntax problem > > On my Slackware box I have no problems when I put the actual md5 into a > file, example: > > [~:core-dump] echo "testing for mailing list" > testfile > [~:core-dump] md5sum testfile > 31747f4c8bbdf8c2e64cd2f6bf3b0c19 testfile > [~:core-dump] echo "31747f4c8bbdf8c2e64cd2f6bf3b0c19 testfile" > md5 > [~:core-dump] md5sum -c md5 > testfile: OK > [~:core-dump] > > Try that. > > Vlad > -- > -Vlad Tsyrklevich
