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giddyupman 09-28-2004 07:53 AM
What is a SIGN File?
 
I was browsing around my universities FTP site looking for a kernel (found it) and noticed that it is immediately followed by a SIGN file. i.e.

linux-2.6.8.1.tar.gz.sign

My spiritual advisors have indicated that it may be some sort of checksum, but Googling "SIGN File" didn't really do what I was looking for.

Anybody?

rjlee 09-28-2004 09:16 AM
It is probably an MD5 checksum file. Try downloading the file and running
Code:
file linux-2.6.8.1.tar.gz.sign
to guess the file type from the contents.


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