Checksum question

Jason Weir jweir at worldnet.att.net
Mon Jun 22 13:46:38 GMT 1998


TBK wrote:

> Since the checksum is part of the rom data, it can't be included in
> the
> checksum. That would make it self modifying. Once you calculated it,
> it
> would change the checksum. The checksum, vin, and usually the prom ID
> are
> not in the checksum calc (on some, the ID is part of the checksum
> range).

That would explain why it changed everytime I tried to calculate it..
thanks for the help

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