Subject: Re: Bad bug in md5sum and cmp
From: [email-masked] (W. Farlow)

12 Nov 1998 22:55:32 -0800
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Have you tried these programs on a binary mounted filesystem?  Or with CYGWIN='  binmode'?

Md5sum and cmp are badly broken. They stop reading the file at the
> first Ctrl-Z. This makes them useless on binary files.
> Cmp reports two files as equal if they differ behind the first Ctrl-Z.
> Md5sum (even when used with the -b flag) stops after the first Ctrl-Z,
> and when checking, reports the file as OK if changes occur only behind
> the first Ctrl-Z.
> These problems exist in B19 and B20.
> Funny: cksum was also broken in B19 but works as expected in B20!
> 
> Ruediger Helsch <[email-masked]>
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