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Justin,

This seems to work. It's marked as beta software, so read and use with
caution. I just downloaded it and ran it against a download of Apache
Tomcat. The check worked as expected.

http://www.exactfile.com/

. . . just my two cents
/mde/

On 8/4/2014 9:41 AM, Justin Georgeson wrote:
> Thanks Paul. I don't see HashTab as being able to directly read the
> .md5 file. Users would have to open the .md5 file in a text editor,
> then copy/paste. And sadly this tiny bit of effort is actually
> being deemed an undue burden. It literally has to be as simple as
> double-click the .md5 file and get nice green graphic that says
> everything is ok. HashCheck is the tool people are wanting to use,
> but that requires the relative path be included in the md5 file.
> I've submitted an enhancement request but their last release was in
> 2009 so I'm not hopeful.
> 
>> -----Original Message----- From: [email protected]
>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Paul Benedict 
>> Sent: Monday, August 04, 2014 11:18 AM To: Maven Users List 
>> Subject: Re: MD5 checksum validation tool [Windows]?
>> 
>> Yup. I've used HashTab for years. 
>> http://www.implbits.com/hashtab.aspx
>> 
>> 
>> Cheers, Paul
>> 
>> 
>> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 11:16 AM, Justin Georgeson
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> 
>>> All the checksum validation tools I've found only seem to
>>> support files with format produced by the md5sum tool, ie -
>>> 
>>> checksum1 relative/path/file1 checksum2 relative/path/to/file2 
>>> ...
>>> 
>>> But Maven publishes sibling files of the same name with ".md5" 
>>> appended, and no relative path in the file. Does anyone know of
>>> a tool on Windows (shell extension, standalone GUI) that people
>>> could use after downloading the artifact (in this particular
>>> case it's an executable installer) and the md5 file and just
>>> double-click the md5 file to validate the download (or
>>> drag/drop the artifact and md5 file)?
>>> 

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