1[ excerpt from developer's web site ]
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3Metalink is the main Metalink generation tool. It combines a list
4of mirrors (from stdin) and a number of files into one Metalink
5record (stdout). It can also be used to transform a MD5SUMS file
6into a metalink.
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8Features currently include:
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10- Hashing algorithms: md4 md5 sha1 sha256 sha384 sha512 rmd160 tiger
11  crc32 ed2k gnunet
12- Generation of Metalink files from MD5SUMS lists
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14WWW: http://metalinks.sourceforge.net/
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