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VALIDATE Version 2.0.1
QUICK COMMAND REFERENCE GUIDE
Copyright 1995 by McAfee, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
LICENSE AGREEMENT
McAfee, Inc. assumes no responsibility for damages or lost data
caused by the use or misuse of this program, including if used
in accordance with the program documentation. Use of Validate means
you comply with this Agreement.
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Before you install a McAfee product that you've downloaded from an
online service, you'll want to verify that the files you
downloaded are exactly the same as when we posted them online.
We recommend you perform this task for maximum anti-virus
protection. Read the following paragraphs to learn how to
validate your file.
Included in the files you downloaded is the Validate program
(version 2.0.1). Validate is a file-authentication program that
you can use to check program files for signs of tampering.
Validate uses two methods of generating Cyclic Redundancy Checks
(CRC's), and then displays the information so you can compare
these statistics against the "known value" for the program files.
The dual CRC checking provides a high degree of security.
The known value you use for validation is usually provided by the
author of the program, or you may receive it from a trusted
information database. You can find the statistics for this
McAfee product in the file PACKING.LST.
To confirm that a program file has not been tampered with, run the
Validate program and then record the validation data produced.
Compare this data against the file statistics the program author has
specified. If the information matches, most likely the program
has not been modified since the files where placed online.
To run VALIDATE, enter the following command:
VALIDATE <path spec>
where <pathspec> is the name of a directory and file. (The
wildcard characters, "*" and "?", can be used when specifying
<pathspec>.)
The VALIDATE program displays the following information:
<name of directory>
name of file (starting at row 1)
extension of file (starting at row 10)
size of file (starting at row 15)
date of file (starting at row 25)
time of file (starting at row 35)
check method 1 (starting at row 44)
check method 2 (starting at row 51)
SAMPLE TXT 12345678 01-01-80 12:01a 1A2B 3C4D
<number> file(s) have been validated.