[EXT] Re: TL 2024 cannot be installed on some Windows computers

[Manfred Lotz]

Hi Phil

On 5/13/24 20:45, Philip Taylor (RHBNC) via tex-live wrote:
> Nelson H. F. Beebe wrote:
>> [...]
>> When I uncompress the tar.xz file, I get
>>
>> 	% ls -l tlperl.windows.r69939.tar
>> 	-rw-rw-r-- 1 beebe wheel 86835200 May 13 12:30 tlperl.windows.r69939.tar
>>
>> 	% md5sum tlperl.windows.r69939.tar
>> 	63469e02848de588a027a9d6b8e3493b  tlperl.windows.r69939.tar
>>
>> Can you verify the filesizes and MD5 checksums at your end?
> Windows (at least at version 7) does not have an "md5sum" program, Nelson, nor
> can I find any .exe with "md5" in its name.  Are you aware of any
> platform-agnostic way of computing an md5 sum ?

If you open a PowerShell and change to the directory where
tlperl.windows.r69939.tar resides you may run

certutil -hashfile tlperl.windows.r69939.tar MD5

-- 
Manfred