Re: [Pan-users] Re: Re: Ctrl+W keyboard shortcut!

[Jim Henderson]

As an option, how's about being able to take 'n' number of text files
containing md5sum outputs (just an md5sum on each line) and compare to
the contents of those files as well?

I actually have scripts I use to do this sort of thing right now on some
binary groups I read, because if I've seen a file before, I never want
to see it again.

I take files pulled from some groups and burn them to CDs, creating an
md5sum file for all the files on the CD so I don't burn the same thing
multiple times.

Jim

Charles Kerr wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Sep 24, 2002 at 10:05:11PM -0400, gaw zay wrote:
> > On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Jeff Vian wrote:
> >
> >>> Thinking about this a sec... don't SFV files contain some kind of hash
> >>> that pertains to the files they describe?  Could Pan use that to
> >>> determine whether we should bother to download a particular file?
> 
> > You'd have to download the file and decode it to know if the md5sum
> > is right or not.
> 
> Yup, you couldn't rely on the SFV because it could be hard to find,
> or deleted, or -- in most cases -- not posted in the first place.
> 
> But, if Pan ran an md5sum on file and file_2, and they matched,
> it could at least delete file_2.
> 
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