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From: Steve Frampton
Subject: od bug
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2008 17:46:58 -0400

Hello,

Linux appears to swap the bytes within the words:

address@hidden ~]$ uname -a
Linux bgr-7r4ved1l.soi.com 2.6.18-53.1.4.el5 #1 SMP Fri Nov 30 00:45:16
EST 2007 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
address@hidden ~]$ od --version
od (GNU coreutils) 5.97
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the
terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

Written by Jim Meyering.
address@hidden ~]$ echo "abcdefgh" | od -x
0000000 6261 6463 6665 6867 000a
0000011
address@hidden ~]$  



HPUX od shown as a baseline:

/home/sframpto--> uname -a
HP-UX soi_prod B.10.20 A 9000/800 1279364181 two-user license
/home/sframpto--> echo "abcdefgh" | od -x
0000000 6162 6364 6566 6768 0a00
0000011
/home/sframpto-->


Best,

Steve



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