Re: [Nmh-workers] MD5FMT

[Ken Hornstein]

>On FreeBSD and MacOS 10.6, md5 produces:
>
>MD5 (README) = 594d19e333c06370c49afaa1f8d21c93
>
>which when run through the default MD5FMT sed transformation gives:
>
>594d19e333c06370c49afaa1f8d21c93  README
>
>which seems wrong according to the comments in output_md5() (test/common.sh).

Hrm.  That test succeeds for me on MacOS X (that's why I did MD5FMT stuff
in the first place).

>The trouble with cut is that it only supports one delimiter. Apparently
>there's a SP vs. TAB inconsistency between various md5(1)
>implementations.

Ah, okay, I guess I didn't realize there was a TAB used in other md5
implementations.

See now why I wanted to get rid of that MD5 code? :-)

--Ken