Re: pkg netlist

[David Bateman]

Bob Weigel wrote:
>>> |
>>> | octave:1> md5sum("test string\n")
>>> | ans = f299060e0383392ebeac64b714eca7e3
>>> |
>>> | % echo "test string" > foo; md5sum foo
>>> | f299060e0383392ebeac64b714eca7e3  foo
>>> |
>>> | Shows that the code works.. The code is worked up as a patch against
>>> | the CVS.
>>>       
>
> Hi David,
>
> I think this is great addition.  I would like to suggest that the input 
> should 
> be either a file name or a string.  If a filename is found in the loadpath, 
> the checksum for it is computed.  
>   
How do you tell the difference between a filename and a string? Does
this mean you want a "-file" option or something like that

> Without a file name option, we'll be loading a file into memory (tar.gz) and 
> passing it to md5.  For large files, it will be much faster to use a system 
> call to a md5 binary (if it exists).
>   
I'm not sure that

fid = fopen (file, "rb")
buf = fread(fid)
fclose(fid)
md5 = md5sum(char(buf)')

won't be as fast..

D.




> Bob
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