At 11:49 28/07/2017 -0700, Girvin Herr wrote:
That is painful and error-prone. I know, I used to do it. Then I automated the process:
md5sum --check --strict <md5-filename>

The enquirer is using Windows 10. Are you suggesting that Windows 10 has such a routine? He could download and install Microsoft's File Checksum Integrity Verifier (FCIV).

(In any case, his problem was believing that he had to compare the hash of the download file with *the hash of* the MD5 file.)

Brian Barker

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