PERL CPAN - Digest::* module for cksum?

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Digest::* module for cksum?

Mark J. Reed

2005-04-21, 9:01 pm

Do any of the Digest:: modules use the same algorithm as the default one
used by modern versions of the cksum command? It's unnamed in the man page,
but seems to come from ISO 8802, with an implementation given in the August
'88 CACM.

None of the names looked obviously likely. Digest::CRC does produce the same
result as cksum -o 3, but I'm stuck with a bunch of numbers that were
generated by cksum with no -o that I want to validate against without having
to fork a process each time...

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Mark J. Reed <markjreed@mail.com>

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