Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@sourceware.cygnus.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@sources.redhat.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@sources.redhat.com From: "Robert Praetorius" Organization: Ministry of Hobo Regalia, Gauntlet Division To: "Timothy Buckelew" Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 04:44:35 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: 'od -x' output is reversed Reply-to: RPraetorius@AspenRes.Com CC: cygwin@sources.redhat.com Message-ID: <39C057B3.15221.6426496@localhost> In-reply-to: <39BE79D4.5C083885@noaa.gov> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) > Let's say file 'junk' cpontains '121212'. > > In HP/UX 'od -x junk' yields 3132 3132 3132 > > In cygwin it yields 3231 3231 3231 > > Any ideas? ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/ien/ien-137.txt.3 ("On Holy Wars and a Plea for Peace") has an amusing and authoritative discussion of this issue. It ranks right up there with nl vs. CRLF and particle vs. wave. ----g-i-v-e---m-e---a-r-b-e-r-r-y---o-r---g-i-v-e---m-e---b-a-r-k-s----- "oncology recapitulates philately" --Mark Maxson Robert M. Praetorius "balance, not symmetry" --Mark Stanley home: rmp@MA.UltraNet.Com (attribution by Stigler) work: RPraetorius@AspenRes.Com -- Want to unsubscribe from this list? Send a message to cygwin-unsubscribe@sourceware.cygnus.com