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  1.                             VALIDATE Version 2.0.1
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  3.                         QUICK COMMAND REFERENCE GUIDE
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  7.           Copyright 1993, 1994 by McAfee, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
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  12.                              Brought to you by:
  13.  
  14.                       Igor Grebert    Project Leader
  15.                     Jivko Koltchev    Lead Programmer
  16.                          David Mai    TSR Programmer
  17.                       Vadim Ivanov    Algorithms/Emulation Programmer
  18.                  Tatyana Shishkina    Virus Librarian, Programmer
  19.                     Bruce de Graaf    GUI Programmer
  20.                       Dmitri Orlov    DOS UI Programmer
  21.                  Geoff Brandenburg    GUI Artist
  22.                      Spencer Clark    SQA Manager
  23.                       David Pierce    Lead SQA Engineer
  24.                         Sean Birch    SQA Engineer
  25.                       John Zussman    Documentation Project Leader
  26.                         Eric Ivory    Technical Writer
  27.                     Aryeh Goretsky    Documentation Review
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  29.       With special thanks to Bob Chappelear, Rudite Emir, and Bill Larson
  30.           
  31.       ---------------------
  32.       | LICENSE AGREEMENT |
  33.       ---------------------
  34.   
  35.          McAfee, Inc. assumes no responsibility for damages or lost data
  36.          caused by the use or misuse of this program, including if used
  37.          in accordance with the program documentation.
  38.  
  39.          Use of this program means compliance with this Agreement.
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  41.  
  42. VALIDATE is a file-authentication program that may be used to check
  43. other programs for signs of tampering.  VALIDATE uses two discrete
  44. methods to generate Cyclic Redundancy Checks (CRC's), which are then
  45. displayed for the user to compare against the known value for the
  46. program(s) validated.  The known validation data can be published by
  47. the author of the program or be obtained from a trusted information
  48. database.  The dual CRC checking provides a high degree of security.
  49.  
  50.      To confirm that a program is in its original, untampered state,
  51. run the VALIDATE program on it, record the validation data produced,
  52. and compare it against the record in the online database.  If they
  53. match, than it is highly improbable that the program has been modified.
  54.  
  55. To run VALIDATE, type:
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  57.      VALIDATE <path spec>
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  59. where <pathspec> is the name of a file or directory.  The wildcard
  60. characters, "*" and "?", may be used when specifying <pathspec>/
  61.  
  62. The VALIDATE program will then display the following information:
  63.  
  64.                 <name of directory>
  65.  
  66.                 name of file (starting at row 1)
  67.                 |
  68.                 | extension of file (starting at row 10)
  69.                 | |
  70.                 | | size of file (starting at row 15)
  71.                 | | |
  72.                 | | | date of file (starting at row 25)
  73.                 | | | |
  74.                 | | | | time of file (starting at row 35)
  75.                 | | | | |
  76.                 | | | | | check method 1 (starting at row 44)
  77.                 | | | | | |
  78.                 | | | | | |  check method 2 (starting at row 51)
  79.                 | | | | | |  |-------------------------------------
  80.                 | | | | | |---------------------------------      |
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  82.                 | | | |------------------         |        |      |
  83.                 | | |----------         |         |        |      |
  84.                 | |-------    |         |         |        |      |
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  86.                 V        V    V         V         V        V      V
  87.                 SAMPLE   TXT  12345678  01-01-80  12:01a   1A2B   3C4D
  88.  
  89.                 <number> file(s) have been validated.
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