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 Message 421 
 Alan Ianson to mark lewis 
 CRC32 
 30 Sep 16 13:54:51 
 
  Re: CRC32
  By: mark lewis to Alan Ianson on Fri Sep 30 2016 09:55 am

 AI>> I need to get the CRC32 value of a file for a tic file. Is there a
 AI>> utility that will do that, or can bash do that itself?

 ML> i replied in the other area but cksum and/or crc32 may return the desired 
 ML> results... but they also may not... it depends on the way the routine is 
 ML> implemented...

I had a quick look at cksum here but it seems to be returning 9 or 10 digit
output. I think it's decimal rather than hex as you were saying to Tony.

We are very close now.. :)

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