Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-ID: <01ef01c1b966$32aaed70$f400a8c0@mchasecompaq> From: "Michael A Chase" To: "David" Cc: References: <200202191403.g1JE3tx09996@otaku.freeshell.org> Subject: Re: od Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 08:50:56 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 ----- Original Message ----- From: "David" To: "Mark Himsley" Cc: Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 06:03 Subject: Re: od > > >You can see that the hex values in the last line are reversed. > > >I think they should be 4854 5450 000a. > > > > Only if you were on a big-endian platform. > > I can understand what you are saying if I interpret it to mean that > the hex storage values on my machine WindowsNT - which I assume from > you message is a big-endian platform - are faithfully represented > by the output from the od -bcx display. > > What then surprises me is that the octal representation of this > same storage is 110 124 124 120 which is what I would expect. > > It seems to me that you are suggesting that the only correct > representation of the hex storage values would require od to > ouput an ascii value of THPT. I reject, and od itself contradicts, > this interpretation of the storage values as being meaningful. > > I urge you to reconsider your opinion and to modify od to > output 4854 5450. No-one here can modify how od works. If it is really important to you, take it up with the appropriate GNU group. Don't expect a lot of sympathy from them though, this behavior has been consistent for decades. -- Mac :}) ** I normally forward private questions to the appropriate mail list. ** Ask Smarter: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.htm Give a hobbit a fish and he eats fish for a day. Give a hobbit a ring and he eats fish for an age. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/