chsum between HP-UX and Windows2000

[Benjamin Cheong]

Hi there,

I'm trying to verify a file that is transferred from HP-UX to Windows2000. Is there a cksum equivalent on Windows2000 available?

Best regards,
Ben

[T G Manikandan]

download from

http://philastr.nm.ru/cksumwin/CksumWin_1_15.exe

[Tom Ward_1 · Accepted solution]

I noticed there's one listed on the netwib page as well
http://www.laurentconstantin.com/en/netw/netwib/download/v5/

Under the section "What to do with the md5 ?"
I haven't used it, I just noticed that it was there. If you try them both please post something about how well they work, and if the checksums match.

Regards,
Tom

[Alan Turner]

Following on from Tom's message ...
I've tried the Win2K md5 program - works fine (run it under the command prompt, e.g.
md5sum afile.doc
).

You can get the source of an MD5 program from HP Security Bulletin 16 - go to the Security Bulletins Archive - but I'm attaching a shell archive with the source + makefile.

MD5 is considered to be a better checksum than cksum.

[Benjamin Cheong]

Hi all,

Many thanks for your replies!

CksumWin is good, but unfortunately I forgot to mention I needed the application to run from the command line.

The md5sum solution is just what I was looking for. Many thanks!

Cheers,
Ben

[Rene Ulbricht]

Hi Ben,

I found the following perl script useful:
http://www.kluge.net/~felicity/ppt/cksum

The advantage, this runs on several platforms and I don't need to switch parameters.

Cheers,
Rene