Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd wrote:
>> I cannot find this in my local copy, AFAIK you added added buffered
>> file access to the FTP components.
> 
> I added FtpFileMD5 and FtpFileCrc32B to OverbyteIcsFtpSrvT.pas, to
> avoid brings OverbyteIcsStreams into the MD5 and CRC32 units, but
> there's nothing specifically 'FTP' about them, except the name and
> unit <g> 

Ah OK, I think this is a good choice, since usually you won't calculate 
the MD5 checksum of the same file multiple times in sequence. 
 
> They are used in OverbyteIcsMD5Test which compares the buffered and
> non-buffered versions.   I believe the buffered stream version is
> faster on a first read, but no different once Windows has cached the
> file. Windows caching makes comparsions very difficult.

That's true, it becomes even more difficult to compare cached and 
non-cached writes.

--
Arno Garrels


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