put url some url into someVar: nasty crash :(

[david bovill]

Thanks for the help - your a gem!

On 25 Sep 2005, at 22:26, Alex Tweedly wrote:

> It seems to me that, even if possible, it would be undesirable to  
> read a 900Mb file into a variable just to get the md5 hash.
>
> On Linux you can use the "md5sum" utility, on OSX the "md5" command  
> (reputedly, haven't checked, may require XCode or some such  
> package  to be installed). On Win you may need to build your own  
> utility - but there are many very simple, single file sources  
> available, with no library dependencies, so you could build and  
> distribute your own executable for Win32.
> (Or you could download the Microsoft utility to do this - fciv -  
> from http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=841290 )
>
> -- 
> Alex Tweedly       http://www.tweedly.net