Subject: Re: md5sum bug
From: Paul Berrevoets <[email-masked]>
To: larry <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked]
Date: Thu, 12 Aug 1999 21:44:59 -0400

For md5sum, the default mode is text. Of course this doesn't matter in linux,
but in cygwin you will want to use the -b option.
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Paul Berrevoets

larry wrote:

> while transferring files from my win95 box to my linux box, i used md5sum
> from rh6 and md5sum from usertools.exe downloaded from a cygnus mirror.
>
> i noticed that all my files failed the md5 check because linux was
> producing different md5 sums for the same file!
>
> bad md5 implementation somewhere?
>
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