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.sh NAME
sum  \*-  print checksum of a file
.sh SYNOPSIS
.bd sum
[ file ] ...
.sh DESCRIPTION
.it Sum
sums the contents of the bytes (mod 2^16) of
each
.it file 
specified.
.it Sum
prints the file name, the number of whole or
partial 512-byte disk blocks read, and the
summed value of its bytes in decimal. 
.sp
In practice, 
.it sum
is often used to vertify that all of a special
file can be read without error.