Filish

Simple Windows utility to compute hash checksums for files and check them using the Windows Explorer context menu

Installing (manual process, for now)

1. Download a release, and unzip it.
2. Put the Filish folder in C:\Program Files\
3. Import the install.reg file (adds two entries in the Windows Explorer context menu)
4. Done.

Uninstalling

1. Import the uninstall.reg, to delete the registry keys added by install.reg
2. Delete the C:\Program Files\Filish folder
3. Done.

Building

use lazbuild or build from lazarus directly.

API

filish.exe [mode] [file]

where [mode] can be
- generate
  computes the hash of the given file, and writes it to "[file].sha512.sig.txt"
- check
  computes the hash of the file and compares the result with the contents of
  "[file].sha512.sig.txt" and reports whether it is a match or not.


and [file] is an absolute path to a file