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 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) -- 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/
