A checksum is a string of characters which uniquely identifies afile, a digital fingerprint. Change even a few bytes of a file–forexample, by infecting it with a virus or replacing an old versionwith ...

In the past, we’ve talked about several free tools designed for calculating hashes and generating Checksum files. Most lack many features, and some have an ancient-looking user interface, which is ...

A project I'm working on is for a mixed Windows / Mac environment, migrating from NetWare (with AFP services) to Windows with ExtremeZ-IP. We've been using md5summer on Windows, which works great for ...

I'm in the process of upgrading my file server and I'm currently transferring all my files onto an external hard drive.<BR><BR>I'm using cp -av to do the copy. After that's done it would be nice to ...