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 reader 8-)
Bye, Heribert ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Randall R Schulz [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2002 17:56
> To: David; Mark Himsley
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: od
>
> Sir,
>
> You have got to be kidding.
>
> For the record, the x86 architecture is little-endian, PowerPC, e.g., is
> bid-endian. On the off chance that you're running Windows NT (and
> Cygwin???) on an Alpha, I have to admit I don't know which byte ordering
> it
> uses.
>
> You will get the 16-bit output you want from od (any radix) if you run
> Darwin PPC, MacOS X or LinuxPPC, among other systems.
>
> Otherwise, what you request ain't gonna happen. If you want od to
> interpret
> and display integers with sizes greater than 1 byte in a way that differs
> from that of the local processor, you could create a hacked version of
> "od"
> for your personal use.
>
> Randall Schulz
> Mountain View, CA USA
>
[Heribert] [snip]
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