[ale] SHA1SUM question

[John Mills]

Jerry, James -

Thanks for the inputs.

First, I do not appear to have a complete file yet. In fact bittorrent
(using 'ktorrent') reports it is 'stalled' at 99.90% complete. My failed 
checksum makes sense.

QUESTION: Can I somehow kick or restart bittorrent to complete the
download, rather than restarting the whole thing?

Second, I see the 'sha1sum' has "binary" and "text" modes, and I expect 
binary is what I should use on an *.iso file, but "text" appears to the 
the default mode except in DOS. Maybe it was possible to do it wrong.

 - Mills

On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Jerry Yu wrote:

> John,  I downloaded a month back and my sha1sum does match.
> James, I'd like to learn how to 'clean-up' a corrupted download of a single
> file using rsync?  Occasionally a large download gets corrupted and it's pia
> to restart from scratch...
> 
> On 12/5/06, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
> >
> > John,
> >
> > The sha1sum works just like the md5sum but uses a different algorithm.
> > If the checksum is bad either the download is bad or the checksum is
> > bad. I have had good luck using rsync to "cleanup" a bad download.