*BSD News Article 83898


Return to BSD News archive

Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.netspace.net.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!news.acsu.buffalo.edu!dsinc!spool.mu.edu!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!129.33.24.22!fox.almaden.ibm.com!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!not-for-mail
From: bill@qstools.com (Bill Cox)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Where is sum in FreeBSD
Date: 29 Nov 1996 15:21:38 GMT
Organization: Sirius Cybernetics, Sirius City branch
Lines: 20
Message-ID: <57mv22$451@news.scruz.net>
References: <stanbE1Lq2B.CBC@netcom.com>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 205.179.159.64
X-Newsreader: TIN [UNIX 1.3 950515BETA PL0]

Stan Brown (stanb@netcom.com) wrote:
: 	Argh, I am trying to port some user environment setup scripts to my
: FreeBSD machine. I can't find sum. Is it not provided with FreeBSD?
: 
: 	Here is the section from an HP man page describing it's standards
: 	status:
: 
: 
: STANDARDS CONFORMANCE
: 	  sum: SVID2, XPG2, XPG3
: 
: 
: 

It's spelled `cksum'.

-- 
Bill Cox                          Software Janitor

Finger bill@thuvia.qstools.com for PGP public key.