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Old 21st March 2001, 19:52   #1
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Can someone explain what a CRC Check is?

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Old 21st March 2001, 19:57   #2
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It's a way of inserting checksums into a file so that you can tell if it has become corrupt - "Cyclic Redundancy Check".

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http://www.seanet.com/~ksbrown/kmath458.htm

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Ah, nifty. Thanks.
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