> Ah yes, some man files are so helpful, some are just horrible. Oh, good. I was hoping it wasn't just me!
> I am assuming you have downloaded something like Mandrake ISOs. What you > need to do is put the files you downloaded and the md5sums file in the same > directory. Then type: > > md5sum --check md5sums > > (or whatever then name of the file is with the md5sum numbers) Can I simply take the checksum number and create whatever old file-- vi a new file-- with the value, and point the command line to that file? Or does there have to be some special structure to the file? In my case, I downloaded the RH9 isos from Red Hat directly. Their MD5s are just posted on the site next to the file download link. Many thanks-- Andrew _______________________________________________ newbies mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies
