Though you're original post mentioned checksums, the
thread that has developed seems to be discussing Cyclic
Redundancy Checks, which are quite different.
If you really want to understand CRC's, the only thing
which I have ever run across that explains them well was
a document called "Painless guide to Cyclic Redundancy
Checks" (or Check(ing), I can't recall). It should
be fairly easy to find on the web. Excellent read.
It even starts out with a comparison of CRC's vs. Checksums.
Bryan Scaringe
> Hello,
>
> Can someone explain how to compute checksums and how do they work ?
>
> This is for a program i'm working on (
> http://www.imaginet.fr/~dramboz/jview) :
> the program can create databases which are composed of blocks with the
> same size. I'd like to add a checksum to each block to see if the block
> is corrupted (or not).
>
> Thanks for your help
>
> david
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