[nmglug] Define 'forever'

[Sam Noble]

On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 07:55 -0600, Mark Galassi wrote:
>     Sam> Circumstances arranged themselves such that today I needed to
>     Sam> diff a Multi-Gigabyte tarball on a DVD to a copy of it on an
>     Sam> NFS share.  Before I started it going I said to myself, "This
>     Sam> is going to take forever."
> 
> Hmm: did you use diff or cmp?  cmp might be faster on binaries, but
> all it does is tell you at which byte they first differ.
> 
> Running "sum" on each can also tell you if they differ.

Yeah, I realized I was being dumb and md5summed them seperately,
(sometime after 3.1 released) and even later I realized something like
cksum would have been faster. I was unaware of 'sum' but I'll keep it in
mind for next time.
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