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[Thomas Bader]

On Tue, 08 Feb 2000, John Woodman wrote:

Hi!

> Has anyone ever taken the source, compiled it, and compared the result with a
> compiled commercial version (say by running a checksum?)

It isn't worth to do this. If the distributor of the precompiled binary
has used an other compiler[1] or/and an other OS then the two binaries
willn't be equal in any case.

 Cheers,
        Thomas

[1] Or a version different from your compiler version.
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