I can't take a chacksum of the file that is received as I am grabbing a web page(ASP) running on a Windows server and the file which I ultimately have on my Solaris is a flat text file.

Rahul.

hmm, guess checksum doesnt help then.
Rahul, what happens, if you dont check for the EOF, it is an asp page, right ?

__________________
War doesnt determine who is right, it determines who is left

Although it's an ASP page, when i have it on my machine it is converted into a flat text file which contains some records. If this file has a premature EOF, it means I have lost some records from this file. Thus i want to report this by validating this file for premature EOF.

Regards,
Rahul.

There isn't any such thing as a premature EOF. When the file ends, that is where the EOF is written. Unix won't know how many records your file has or if it is written in a specific format.

Also, an ASP page is a file stored on the server that hosts it. It should be possible to get a checksum of the ASP file. When the file that you download gets generated, also get a checksum generated and store it in a file. And when you download the file, also download the file that holds the checksum, generate your own checksum of the file and compare the two.

I am not sure about the availability of md5sum on solaris. But check it out.

info md5sum says
Like blowtorch has mentioned, asp files also reside on the server side. So it should(?) be possible to use the md5sum solution.

Vino

Thanks all for your inputs.

Regards,
Rahul.