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
> 
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