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Simple File Verification

A format first introduced with the WinSFV program, it is widely used in binary newsgroups and other communities for file integrity checking.

A SFV file is a plain-text file containing one line for each file and it's checksum, in the format "filename checksum". The checksum algorithm is CRC32. Lines beginning with a semicolon (';') is considered a comment. Sample SFV file:

this is an example sfv file

file1.zip c45ad668 file2.zip 7903b8e6

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