Website launched – What’s this all about?
Welcome. Back in 2003 I developed a program I called FileCheckMD5. It solved a little problem I had: customers couldn’t tell me if their CD-ROM was defective or damaged, and I had to do a lot of...
View ArticleOnline, finally
I thought yesterday would be the day, but no, it’s today. I’ve got the rudimentaries of a software website online now. I’m not real pleased with this WordPress template I’m using, so I’ll have to pick...
View Articleexf 1.0.0.3 Beta posted
I’ve posted an update to exf. You can download version 1.0.0.3. Here’s what’s new: Adjustments to file reading code. Fixed hidden files not getting scanned. Added -fp switch to include full path in...
View Articleexf 1.0.0.4 beta posted
A quick update to exf today: 1.0.0.4. Mike C. reported incompatibility with exf’s sha1 output style and gnu sha1sum. I’ve changed exf to use gnu style output. exf uses a series of regular expressions...
View ArticleExactFile 1.0.0.10 released
The first public beta version of ExactFile is now available for download. For details on ExactFile, see the ExactFile home page. This beta release is mostly functional. The file checksum, digest...
View ArticleExactFile 1.0.0.12 released
A new beta of ExactFile is available for download. A help file has been added. The Create TestFiles Applet function has been implemented. This update makes FileCheckMD5 completely obsolete. From the...
View ArticleExactFile 1.0.0.15 Released
Another ExactFile update ready for download. This update completes the Windows “open with” support. The installer will offer to associate ExactFile with the following file extensions: .exf .md5 .sha1...
View Articleexf 1.0.1.6 released
A new build of the console application exf has been posted. Version 1.0.1.6 (download, info) fixes problems with batch files. Due to the way Windows handles Unicode output in consoles, exf was...
View ArticleFurther development: not much.
Just in case you’re wondering… The reason ExactFile hasn’t had an update in such a long time is that it does everything I need it to do. There are some more things I’d like to do with it, but other...
View ArticleIt does what I need…
People have asked: no, I am not presently working on ExactFile. It does what I need, and I have been too busy with other projects to spend time advancing the feature set. No, I will not open-source it....
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