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Re: PATCH: source byte order option for od
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Bob Proulx |
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Re: PATCH: source byte order option for od |
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Mon, 14 Jan 2008 18:24:16 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) |
Robert Dodier wrote:
> Here is a patch to enable two new options for od,
> --source-byte-order and --force-byte-swap.
Is this to avoid using 'od -tx1'?
Often people mistakenly use 'od -x' outputing native machine word data
when they really want to output byte data using 'od -tx1'. Native
words suffer from endian differences on different machines but byte
data is portable.
Bob