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

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