Please consider the cost of adding computing a checksum for a multi-megabyte file to the Squeak startup process.  I'm not sure the benefit justifies that cost.  On the other hand, some redundant measure that would catch many, albeit not all, mismatches but would not require a computation on the entire file, might be nice.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: PC :dick at cfcl.com > Sent: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 12:09 AM
> To: squeak at cs.uiuc.edu
> Subject: Re: Out of sync source code
> > > Since Squeak fileins are very sensitive to damage in shipping, would
> it be a good idea for the process to include some redundancy, perhaps
> a checksum, which could be used to make such damage obvious? I'm very
> fond of things that notice when they're broken instead of requiring a
> knowledgable person to figure that out.
> > Dick
> > I hope I've succeeded in obscuring my halo. Else please ignore it.
> > > >