>> (E.g., you try finding a tool that can compute the MD5 sums of all the 
>> files in a given folder and write them into a text file.
> 
> Umm I typed into google "md5 checksum windows", the 2nd result looked 
> promising so I clicked it, and it seems to offer a free command-line 
> tool that does exactly what you want.  It took like 10 seconds, Linux 
> takes longer than that to boot.

Except that the Linux MD5 tool can automatically compute the MD5 sum of 
multiple files. I have only found one tool for Windows that can do this, 
and it was buggy as hell. (Kept printing garbage characters to stdout, 
got confused by certain pathnames, etc.)

>> Under Windows... well, there's a CLI tool that will compute the MD5 
>> sum for *one* file, but you try scripting it to process several...)
> 
> If you have ever done any windows scripting it should be a piece of 
> cake, this is pretty standard stuff for dealing with files in scripts:
> 
> Set FSO = CreateObject("Scripting.FileSystemObject")
> Set Folder = FSO.GetFolder("folder name")
> Set Files = Folder.Files
> For Each File in Files
>  do something with File.Name here
> Next

What the hell language is *that*?!

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