Andrew Hunter wrote:

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?


Yup. That's it. It's just a text file. In Mozilla, you can just right-click and say "Save link target as" and save the file, or just copy+paste the contents into vi. No prob.

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--


--Dave



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