On Wed, Sep 29, 2021 at 12:06 PM <2qdxy4rzwzuui...@potatochowder.com> wrote:
> > ... Or, even better, to be able to read off a hex dump and see E8 03
> > and instantly read it as "1,000 little-endian".
>
> 59535 big endian.  Warningm flamebait ahead:  Who thinks in little
> endian?  (I was raised on 6502s and 680XX CPUs; 8080s and Z80s always
> did things backwards.)

I do, because most of the file formats I've had to delve into have
been little-endian. It seems to be far more common to have
undocumented file formats created by Windows programs than, say,
undocumented network packet formats (which would use network byte
order, naturally).

ChrisA
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