Re: Enhancement request for od, dd

[Bob Proulx]

It would be most appreciated if you would group reply (or just to the
list since I am subscribed) to keep the others on the mailing list
involved.  Also the mailing list mail is archived so that others can
benefit from the discussion later.

Jon Clifton wrote:
> My default alias for os is:
> alias od='od -t xz -Ax '

Ah, there is what I was fishing for.  You are using -tx without a
size.  It is defaulting to word size.  Please try using it with -tx1
and look at the output.  Is that acceptable?  That should generate the
same output on either big or little endian machines.

  od -tx1z -Ax

> After I learned enough about the data format I wrote a small C program on 
> Linux that used ntohl() to byteswap the data where required and format it 
> into ASCII.
  
Is that basically the same as the following?

  dd conv=swab | od -txz

Sounds like you are on track.

Bob