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Re: Error checking info for Fixpacks?

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From: Alex Taylor
Date: Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:39
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On 18 Dec 2000 23:22:36 GMT, Victor Bien delete nspam. to reply <nospam.vbien@attglobal.net> wrote:
>  The reason for my suspicion is that, for example, the XR_M010.ddk
>obtained by CD-ROM unpacked with "no errors" by DIUNPACK nevertheless
>did not produce a CMD.EX_ file.  When Service & Fservice ran it fell
...
>  So I'm wondering whether IBM could supply a CRC list with a tool to
>check the diskimage files CRC against?

DIUNPAK does not, indeed, perform CRC checking.

For that you need DSKXTRCT, which does.  (It's not written by IBM but it
works with almost all DSK images.)  DSKXTRCT is available here:
http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/pub/os2/system/patches/fixpack/dskxtr12.zip

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From: alex@eddie.cis.uoguelph.ca (Alex Taylor)
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Subject: Re: Error checking info for Fixpacks?
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