Sum history

David Elliott dce at mips.COM
Tue Feb 2 06:08:44 AEST 1988


Does anyone know why sum on System V-based systems produces
different results by default than sum on BSD-based systems?

I notice also that System V sum has a -r option for using an
alternate algorithm, which generates the same results as the
BSD sum.

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