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- In investigating why the CRC42 utility yields a '00 00' CRC
- for files smaller than 128 bytes, I found that it was ignoring
- partial sectors. This is a hangover from the CPM version from
- which it was derived. CPM has no partial sectors. This version
- fixes this. It fixes the partial sector problem, but note that
- it generates different CRCs than CRC42 for any file that doesn't
- end on a 128 byte boundary.
-
- To make up for that, I put back a few goodies.
-
- Goodbye printing out the CRCKLIST (or compatable -CATALOG)
- file & manually checking off the CRCs as they fly by. CRC65 will
- do it for you.
-
- And for those of you whose CRCs don't fly by, CRC65 is
- specially optimized to run up to 600% faster on a floppy disk
- based IBM-PC. A companion CRCBUILD utility is also available for
- generating -CATALOG files with CRCs compatable with this program.
-
- Howard Vigorita
- New York Amateur Computer Clob