On Thu, 05 May 2005 17:56:19 -0700, Joe Marks wrote:

> What is Md5 checksum?  How does it fit in during downloading
> OpenOffice.org?

You run md5sum in your local machine to calculate the digest for the file
you downloaded and compare the results to confirm you got an accurate copy
of the original file.

http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/using_md5sums.html

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