MD5 and RPG or...?

[qsrvbas@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Tom Liotta)]

Some general background...

The archive has this item which seems to have never been responded to:

http://archive.midrange.com/midrange-l/200302/msg00838.html

Also, Perl/php, Linux, various *nixes and who knows what else have md5sum and 
other commands or utilities.

Under OS/400, we primarily have CIPHER or the _CIPHER  builtin.

But I'm unclear about CIPHER (and probably MD5 to boot). It seems that the 
maximum string length would be 16MB since a pointer is input to the function. 
Some process for handling a document (streamfile) >16MB would seem to require a 
chaining from segment to segment or something like that.

A google over AIX and MD5 left me with a sea of references that will take a 
month to go through to see if PASE might help. QShell didn't have anything that 
jumped out at me.

Is there any material on how to handle >16MB documents under OS/400?

Thanks in advance.

Tom Liotta

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