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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Where is sum in FreeBSD
Date: 29 Nov 1996 08:17:32 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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stanb@netcom.com (Stan Brown) wrote:

> 	Never mind! I should learn to read *all* the man page :-(
> 
>   Remarks
> 		sum is obsolescent and should not be used in new
> applications that are intended to be portable between systems.  Use
> cksum instead (see cksum(1)).

Btw., cksum -o1 or cksum -o2 is what you need when comparing the
results to the old sum(1).

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)