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: <5.1.0.14.2.20020219112209.02466620@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Tue, 19 Feb 2002 11:25:32 -0800 To: Heribert Dahms , David , Mark Himsley From: Randall R Schulz Subject: RE: od Cc: cygwin@cygwin.com In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hi, Heribert, Ahh, yes, my old friend dd and his funky command syntax (inspired by some old IBM command language, if I'm not mistaken). The Swiss Army Knife of Unix data transfer. Thanks for reminding me. However, I don't see a 4-byte equivalent to "conv=swab" in the manual page, so this will not extend to 32-bit entities. Randy At 11:21 2002-02-19, Heribert Dahms wrote: >Hi Randall, > >no need to hack od because of endianess, we are on *nix after all, so pipe >it thru: dd conv=swab If needed often, put it in a wrapper shell script or >an alias! Testing portably if you want it swapped or not is left as an >excercise for the reader8-) > >Bye, Heribert (heribert_dahms@icon-scm.com) -- 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/