Jerome H. Fine wrote:
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 Jerome Fine replies:
 It seems that there are md5 programs which are more
 flexible than the single file (at a time) use version
 that I am using.  Any help possible on a link to an
 enhanced version? 
OpenSSL.   You can then use SHA1 if you feel like it.
If you're running under Win32, use CygWin (
www.cygwin.com) to get
precompiled binaries, and then:
openssl md5 <files/wildcard>
If you're running a Linux variant, it probably already has a openssl
package in the distro somewhere.
If you're using another Unix variant:
www.openssl.org     has the source, as well as manpages.   I think it'll
build on VMS as well.
David
 Sincerely yours,
 Jerome Fine
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