From: Ralph Smith <ralph@...>
Date: 2005-10-25T17:37:02+09:00
Subject: ruby gives different answer for checksum of files on windows and FreeBSD?



If I run this code to compute a "checksum" of a file I get a different answer on a windows machine
and a FreeBSD machine. Does anyone know why? Or a better way to get a quick checksum of a file?

fname = ARGV[0] 

size = File.size(fname);
checksum = 0;

f = File.new(fname)
f.each_byte {|x| checksum += x }

printf("%s:  %d    ( %x hex )\n", fname, checksum, checksum)


Thanks,
Ralph