Re: Bug in -s option of sum.

[Jim Meyering]

"Graham D. Purcocks" <address@hidden> wrote:
> I have a file attached which when run with sum -s for version 2.0a gives
> a checksum of 0.

Thanks for the report.

> On other O/S notably IRIX, Solaris and SCO the answer is 65535.
>
> Has this been fixed?

Probably.  When I unpacked your .tgz file, I found
many files presumably pieces of your original.
But running `sum -s' on the concatenation of those files gave this:

4481 2070

Just recently there was a bug report for `sum -s' vs. large files.
It has been fixed.  A new test release is coming soon.

Look here in a day or two:
  ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/fetish/

Here's the entry from the NEWS file:

* sum -s produces the proper 16-bit checksum for large files
    (this fixes a bug that was introduced in 2.0f)