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RE: different DLL....


----Original Message----
>From: Jason FU
>Sent: 29 July 2005 17:19

> Dave Korn <dave.korn <at> artimi.com> writes:
> 
>> 
>> ----Original Message----
>>> From: Jason FU
>>> Sent: 29 July 2005 16:15
>> 
>>> I just checked by dll's by "md5sum /bin/*.dll". I really wonder why the
>>> MD5's of all files are not the same since they're of the same "ages".
>> 
>>   MD5 is the hash of a file, not the timestamp.  RTFM!
>> 

> Sorry that I did not make it clear. 
 
  Ah, I really couldn't make much sense of the original post!

> The two set of MD5's were from two
> different machines and when I transferred one set of these files to the
> other one for diff'ing, diff said they were different and they are of the
> packages of the same version.

  Well, if both md5sum and diff say the files are different, they must *be*
different.  Or at any rate, the data returned from opening and reading the
files must be different.

  There's probably some kind of textmode-translation-gone-wrong.  Have the
filesizes grown?  Are the mount modes different?

  Oh, and did you know that md5sum takes --text and --binary flags on the
command line?


    cheers,
      DaveK
-- 
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