cksum missing

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 21 March 2006 4:01 am, walter harms wrote:
> Hi list,
> the gnu coreutils provide a checksum utility that calculates the CRC32.
> any reason why it is not included ?
>
> I am on the way writing one, if some planning to do it he should come up
> now.

We already have two checksum calculation things.  One in bunzip and one in 
gunzip.  (They're two different kinds of CRC32.  The same basic algorithm but 
the endianness is different and one is initialized to 0 the other to -1.)

I'm all for it, but merging it is 1.1.2 material.

> re,
>   walter

Rob
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