uutils/coreutils — pull request #317 by redcape (2014-06-27 04:52:50+00:00)
Title: Use Less Memory and Fix Text Mode on Windows/UNIX

The following are changes to fix #303:
1. hashsum pulls 512KB chunks of the file into memory. This ends up taking 1MB with
a secondary buffer allocated for windows. hashsum is now able to hash files larger
than the computer's available memory.
2. Text no longer transforms to UTF-8. This allows hashing to work on binary files
without specifying text mode. On Windows, it converts a Windows newline '\r\n' to
the standard newline '\n'.
3. Set default modes: Windows uses binary by default, all other systems use text.

Gil Cottle