From: alanr@henge.com (Robertson Family)
Subject: cksum and sum commands broken
2 Dec 1996 05:21:31 -0800
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Both the sum and cksum programs that come with the gcc-win32 "package"
are broken.  It looks like they aren't prepared to read binary files. Of
course, you have to include O_BINARY to open or "b" to fopen to do that
in this environment.  Clearly the original GNU sources don't do that.

Both the sum and cksum programs that come with the gcc-win32 "package"
are broken.  It looks like they aren't prepared to read binary files. 
Of course, you have to include O_BINARY to open or "b" to fopen to do
that in this environment.  Clearly the original GNU sources didn't do
that.


	-- Alan Robertson
	   alanr@henge.com OR alanr@bell-labs.com
	   http://www.henge.com/~alanr/
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