On Wed, 5 Nov 2014 16:09:27 -0600, Shane Ginnane wrote: >On Tue, 4 Nov 2014 16:09:22 -0800, Charles Mills wrote: > >>My favorite octal "story" is that on UNIX to dump a file in hex you use the >>octal dump program (od with the -x option). > >That is one option. I use hexdump - easier for my non law school brain to >handle .... ;-) > I had been unaware of that. Alas, not POSIX; not z/OS.
VAX had an interesting dump utility. ASCII was displayed in its field, left-to-right in address order; hex right-to-left in address order. Little-endian. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
