Back Top Next

Pure Perl

Summer 2003 we got serious about producing portable hashing code

Tested the Digest::SHA1, Digest::MD5 and String::CRC32 modules, found them correct

Hacked a "find2perl" output to produce a completely portable hasher: find2perl . -type f -print

Made this code available to the public

Did not recurse into archive files, though

Had a hard time finding modules to extract .CAB files and a few other formats

Still, got code to run on Linux and Mac, used "wrapper" calls to extraction apps