> Syntax change? seems to work fine on my older boxen. This option was removed in revision 1.128 in CVS, Sept 19 2004, http://cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/coreutils/src/md5sum.c?rev=1.144&root=coreutils&view=log, with a comment that 'Remove support for undocumented and obsolete --string option, as suggested in the 1996-09-26 patch.'
See also http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2004-09/msg00122.html -- Eric Blake _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils