>Thanks.  Since a lot of scripts for shar'd software contain references to
>"sum", perhaps a simple shell script could be provided under that name?

and which "sum" algorithm would you like it to use? I suspect this is what
caused 'cksum' to come into existance.

Of course; I'm not the standards person so I'll just shut up now.

Where's JTC when you need him? :-)

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