What is the best way to calculate a checksum for a file that is on my machine?

Question

I\'m on a Windows machine and I want to run a checksum on the MySQL distribution I just got. It looks like there are products to download, an unsupported Microsoft tool, an

Answer 1

On Windows : you can use FCIV utility : http://support.microsoft.com/kb/841290

On Unix/Linux : you can use md5sum : http://linux.about.com/library/cmd/blcmdl1_md5sum.htm