-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 MK> @MSGID: <57EF029B.145.fido-tuxpower@freeway.apana.org.au>
 MK> -={ Saturday, 01 October 2016, 09:48:41.003231013 +1000 }=-

 MK> Hey Tony!

 TL> I got an 8 digit decimal output from cksum

 MK> It needs to be converted to hex for comparitive purposes;

 MK>   printf "%08X\n" 89108290

I could see an 8 digit decimal number wasn't going to be equivalent to the hex
one.  Didn't need to convert to see that. :)

 MK> which outputs 054FAF42 which differs from the DOS output - E6A6D14C.

 TL> which is either too short to be 32 bit

 MK> Unsigned 32 bit integers vary from 0 to 4294967295, which correspond to
 MK> 00000000 to FFFFFFFF in hex speak.  The eight digit hex output requires
 MK> padding for integers less than 268435456.

There was the implication of the leading digit of the DOS output being E, which
an 8 digit decimal number couldn't possibly achieve.  Just talking some
shortcuts based on logic and the available data. :)


... OOPS I didn't know my screen would do that!
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