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RE: Byte-order in od -x (Win2K)
- From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
- To: Dave Korn <dave dot korn at artimi dot com>
- Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 13:41:00 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: RE: Byte-order in od -x (Win2K)
- References: <SERRANO18zxGdJcEoBj00000259@SERRANO.CAM.ARTIMI.COM>
- Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:
Probably TITTTL material, but...
> Now, I'd certainly agree that short int is a strange default for od (as
> indeed is octal, which it defaults to if you don't specify a base
> explicitly);
Why would octal be a strange default for a program called "octal dump"?
;-)
> but it's not 'strange' and nothing is 'transposed', it's simply
> correct-albeit-unexpected behaviour.
HTH,
Igor
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