Error detection and correction

File Format
Name	Error detection and correction
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Error detection and correction

Error detection only

• Adler-32
• Checksum
• CRC (Cyclic Redundancy Check)
  • CRC-16
  • CRC-32
• MurmurHash
• Parity bit
• xxHash

For cryptographic hash functions, see Encryption.

Error detection and correction

• ARJ-PROTECT data
• Hamming code
• RAR recovery record and .rev recovery volumes
• Reed-Solomon error correction

Type-in Program Validation

• AccuType - Nibble
• Apple Checker - Nibble
• BASIC Editor - ANALOG Computing
• Bug Repellent - Ahoy!
• C:Check/D:Check/ST-Check - ANALOG Computing
• CheckIt - Nibble
• Checkbin/Checksoft - Core and Hardcore Computist
• Checksummer - 64'er
• Checksummer (Frank Brall) - Computronic and Compute Mit
• Commodore Dossier Checksum - Commodore Dossier
• Dataspeeder - Commodore Dossier
• F64Summer - Forum64
• Flankspeed - Ahoy!
• Get It Right - Atari User
• Hex Data Entry - Your Commodore
• Key Perfect - Nibble
• Korrector/Kontrolsum - Run (German, Danish and Hungarian editions)
• M/L Editor - ANALOG Computing
• Magazine Entry Program - Commodore Magazine
• MIKBUG Tape Format - Byte
• MLX - COMPUTE! and COMPUTE!'s Gazette
• MSE - 64'er
• Perfect Typist - Run
• Program Checker - ROM Magazine
• Squares Input Program - Computronic
• Stop Bug - Papersoft
• SWAT (Strategic Weapon Against Typos) - SoftSide
• Syntax Checker - Your Commodore
• Tarkastaja (Inspector) - MikroBITTI
• The Automatic Proofreader - COMPUTE! and COMPUTE!'s Gazette
• TYPO (Type Your Program Once) - Antic and Page 6
• Unicheck - ANALOG Computing
• Verifizer - Transactor

General Info about Type-In Program Checkers

• Wikipedia
• Learn About Checksum Programs for Checking Type-In Programs
• First encounter: COMPUTE! magazine and its glorious, tedious type-in code

Lost/Apocryphal Type-in Program Checkers

• Code Checker - PC Hands On (probably related to one of the programs used by Nibble Magazine)
• KEYO - UK Monitor

Uncategorized

• BlockHashLoc (.bhl)
• Blockyarchive/blkar (.ecsbx)
• Brik
• DVDisaster Error Correction File (.ecc)
• ICE ECC (.ecc)
• Mono (.mono)
• Parity Volume Set / Parchive (.par, .par2, .par3, pa3, .p??)
• Recovery Star
• RockFAT
• rsbep (.shielded, .frozen.RS)
• RSC32 (.RSC32, .RSE32)
• rscode-correction (.rsecc)
• SeqBox (.sbx)

See also

• Error codes and messages

Links

• Fixity and Filesystems: Enhanced System Monitoring via inodes