Subject: Re: cksum
To: John M Vinopal <banshee@gabriella.resort.com>
From: Chris G Demetriou <Chris_G_Demetriou@ux2.sp.cs.cmu.edu>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 06/16/1996 17:33:49
> i'm using this on a adec alpha running osf and on an i386 netbsd.
> same files cksum differently.  sum produces the same results.  can
> someone else confirm or deny that sum works and cksum is busted?

actually, i'm more inclined to believe that the OSF/1 version of cksum
is broken.

If i recall correctly, cksum was changed between the berkeley Net/2
release and Lite, because the Net/2 version had a bug that would cause
it to miscalculate the checksum.  OSF/1 is probably using the old
version.



cgd