Utility to find file CRC

[tuhkanen]

Is there any utility to calculate file CRC the same way as SUF's tool does?

I found that unix tool cksum do not give same values.

Timo

[Lorne]

Re: Utility to find file CRC

Can you give an example?

I'd bet dollars to donuts that cksum is just outputting the same value in hex.

[tuhkanen]

Re: Utility to find file CRC

Here:

[21.58.27] H:\W2K\SetupFactory6> cksum --version
cksum (GNU textutils) 2.0
Written by Q. Frank Xia.

Copyright (C) 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

[21.58.35] H:\W2K\SetupFactory6> cksum *.exe
1634060151 212992 Convert40.exe
696267704 311296 Project Converter.exe
2109582698 2039808 SUF60Design.exe
1514508696 675840 update.exe

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With SUF6 I get the following results:

H:\W2K\SetupFactory6\Convert40.exe: 409282661
H:\W2K\SetupFactory6\Project Converter.exe: 623491489
H:\W2K\SetupFactory6\SUF60Design.exe: 2794894113
H:\W2K\SetupFactory6\update.exe: 3228215393

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Quote from man page:
"Note: The cksum command is POSIX 1003.2 compliant and the checksum produced
is guaranteed to be calculated the same on all POSIX 1003.2 compliant
systems."

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Which version of cksum do You have?

Timo

[This message has been edited by tuhkanen (edited 04-15-2002).]

[Lorne]

Re: Utility to find file CRC

The problem with CRC32 algorithms is that there is more than one approved standard out there. cksum even allows for this, if you check out the --man for it.

POSIX.2 either uses a different algorithm or a different polynomial. I'm not sure offhand which algorithm SF6 uses, but I know for a fact that it is a common one.

You may want to use this utility instead:
http://www.inwa.net/~frog/boo/win32/intel/crc.zip

...which is found at:
http://www.inwa.net/~frog/bamboo.htm

It outputs the values in hex, but they match Setup Factory's once converted.

There's also a freeware GUI utility that might work: (I haven't tried it so I don't know what algorithm it uses)
http://www.skylarkutilities.com/program.pcs?crc32

[tuhkanen]

Re: Utility to find file CRC

>It outputs the values in hex ...
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Thank you!

I have a very strong feeling that SetupFactory is a good program and the support team is one of the best!