Re: comparing PE files with CRC/checksum

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From: Mohun Biswas (m.biswas_at_invalid.addr)
Date: 08/12/04 

Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2004 14:50:54 GMT

Slava M. Usov wrote:
> Your verbose attempts to impute stupidity to the *free advice* are simply a
> bigger waste of bandwidth.

I can only say that I disagree with the sarcasm. Anticipating the usual
round of "don't do that" posts found on Usenet, I tried to head them off
by prefixing my original post with the words "this much is an
architectural requirement and not subject to reimplementation". Despite
that I got a number of "don't do that" posts from people who had
apparently not read closely. Am I guilty of wasting bandwidth, or
calling them stupid, by trying to nudge the thread back onto the track?
I can't see it. If you look at the original post I think you'll see that
I worked hard at formulating a clear, concise, and well-backgrounded set
of questions.

> You have been told everything that could possibly have been told on the
> subject...

This may be evident to you. It is not evident from the thread.

> P.S. You should understand that executables that are only different in
> timestamps may be functionally different. I'm not going to explain why, to
> avoid wasting the precious bandwidth.

You say you have interesting and topical information but that posting it
would be a waste of bandwidth? Please drop the sarcasm and, for the sake
of other interested readers if not me, explain your reasoning. Clearly a
program which reads its own timestamp(s), or which hashes the file
containing it, can be functionally different. How else? 

-- 
M.Biswas

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