sha1sum for Windows XP; shell choices

[Robert L Cochran]

John Summerfied wrote:

> Robert L Cochran wrote:
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>> A friend of mine who wants to install Fedora Core 4 for the first 
>> time is wondering if the sha1sum program can be used from Microsoft 
>> Windows XP. Can it?
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> Not unless he (or his helper) can build it for Windows. Likely Google 
> can find the binaries.
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Thanks. I found it here: ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/binary/sha1sum.exe 
and passed it on to the friend.

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>> Also, can the friend install a different shell than bash?
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> He can. Why does he want to? (they're all fairly unfriendly to 
> beginners), and cmd.exe from Windows probably won't help.


I'm guessing that my friend is quite familiar with shell programming 
under DOS/Windows. So I would think he wants to dabble with shell 
programming in *nix, too, and would like to try the different shells 
available.

Thanks

Bob Cochran

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