about keeping a checksums table in a separate file

[Daniel J. Luke]

On Feb 1, 2016, at 3:09 PM, René J.V. Bertin <rjvbertin at gmail.com> wrote:
> As an example of a potentially non-trivial file for automatic checksum updating

I don't think this would be as hard to implement as you seem to think it would be.

As a first try, a really simple s/$oldchecksum/$newchecksum/ would probably work (I'm perhaps not creative enough to think of a use-case where that would false-positive and change something unintended).

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Daniel J. Luke