From: VeTeRaN BoDyGuArD <chuawei1@comp.nus.edu.sg> Subject: File identification Date: 13 Jan 1999 08:10:39 GMT In Windows programming, is there any way i can uniquely identify a file without using its pathname? Eg, if the user renames a file from c:\abc.exe to c:\def.exe, it should not matter to me, i wud still identify it as the same file. I tot of using the file creation time, file size and the first few bytes of a file to determine. Is this safe?
From: LockSmith <woontong@comp.nus.edu.sg> Subject: Re: File identification Date: 13 Jan 1999 16:40:04 GMT compute some sort of file signature like CRC or MD5