RE: MD5 and RPG or...?

["Wilt, Charles" <CWilt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yes,

You should be able to find more info in the archives.  But there's a couple of 
parameters that allow you to call CIPHER repeatedly, once for each chunk of an 
unlimited size file.

HTH,

Charles Wilt
iSeries Systems Administrator / Developer
Mitsubishi Electric Automotive America
ph: 513-573-4343
fax: 513-398-1121
 

> -----Original Message-----
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> [mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Tom Liotta
> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 7:07 PM
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> Subject: MD5 and RPG or...?
> 
> 
> 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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