Hi Mark, Thank you for your reply to my message about the od utility: I wrote:
>> I created at test file with 4 characters in it: >> >> HTTP >> >> Then, I run od -bcx and I get: >> >> 110 124 124 120 012 000 >> H T T P \n \0 >> 5448 5054 000a You wrote: > That is correct in this little-endian platform, see > http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/l/little-endian.html > > >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. David -- 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/
