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* [gentoo-dev] md5 files of the iso-images
@ 2003-01-02 23:59 Sven Köhler
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From: Sven Köhler @ 2003-01-02 23:59 UTC (permalink / raw
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Hi,

someone invented this damn fopen-thing and specified, that a "b" can be 
  used to force binary-mode open. text-mode is default as you might know.

md5sum also has a "-b" switch, and i want to bring it back into your 
minds. It's ment for those people who create the md5-files for the 
iso-images.

Just because Linux doesn't differ between text- and binary-mode, the 
"-b" switch isn't to be ignored.
It's always anying to me, as i sometimes use md5sum an a platform that 
uses a text-mode conversion for read/write operations.

Thx
   Sven





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