We have a customer who sends us all sorts of files, binaries and word docs and text and whatever. We sometimes get the "same" file on the same day from two different people, and the file dates are identical but the lengths differ. Or someone emails me a file and someone else says to download it from their portal.
Is there a commonly used CRC program that we could run to get file CRCs? We could ask them to give us the CRC for an "official" final file, and compare that to what we have and think is the correct file.
They are a huge company with bizarre rules for everything, but their documentation discipline is horrendous. We get docs that have no identified author, no dates, no statement of what the file *is* or what it applies to. We get binaries that might be development versions, might be final releases, no way to tell.
A standard CRC utility would help a lot.