Help With CRC!

 BBS: Inland Empire Archive
Date: 06-15-93 (21:56)             Number: 326
From: QUINN TYLER JACKSON          Refer#: NONE
  To: TONY MACE                     Recvd: NO  
Subj: Help With CRC!                 Conf: (2) Quik_Bas

TM>Hello All!

TM>Help, I am trying to write a util that needs to calc a CRC
TM>of a user name and return it as a string so I can use it
TM>with a filename for access.  For example the mail program
TM>calcs 'FD459DBB' for 'TONY MACE'.....

TM>I have routines to calc 32bit CRC but when I convert it to
TM>a HEX var I get something completly different.....

TM>What am I doing wrong.....

Tony:

To get an 8 byte name from a 32 bit CRC, do this:


        HEXNAME$ = HEX$(NOT CRC(NameString$))


The NOT turns it into an 8 byte string, no matter what the CRC happens
to be.  Without the NOT, you get variable length file names from the
string.

Cheers....


Quinn
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