Awesome. Many thanks. On Sun, 2003-04-06 at 22:40, David Smith wrote: > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > newbies mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://phantom.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/newbies >
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