polaughlin
21st March 2001 20:52 UTC

Can someone explain what a CRC Check is?

Thanks.

JackW
21st March 2001 20:57 UTC

It's a way of inserting checksums into a file so that you can tell if it has become corrupt - "Cyclic Redundancy Check".

More information here:

http://www.seanet.com/~ksbrown/kmath458.htm

polaughlin
21st March 2001 21:00 UTC

Ah, nifty. Thanks.