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From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@corecode.ath.cx>
Subject: Re: i386/36774: The  hexdump  &  od  commands doesn't present the input data in the same order among their various formats on the  IBM PC
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The following reply was made to PR i386/36774; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Simon 'corecode' Schubert" <corecode@corecode.ath.cx>
To: Gerald Stoller <Gerald_Stoller@hotmail.com>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: i386/36774: The  hexdump  &  od  commands doesn't present the input data in the same order among their various formats on the  IBM PC
Date: Fri, 5 Apr 2002 09:04:05 +0200

 On Thu, 4 Apr 2002 20:40:45 -0800 (PST) Gerald Stoller <Gerald_Stoller@hotmail.com> wrote:
 
 >       The  hexdump  &  od  commands doesn't present the input data in
 > the same order among their various formats on the  IBM PC  (due to the
 > order-difference between bytes in byte-pairs and shorts [little-endian]).
 > 	For  hexdump , look at the pipeline
 >     echo  -123-  |  hexdump -cxo
 > whose output is
 >     0000000   -   1   2   3   -  \n
 >     0000000    312d    3332    0a2d
 >     0000000  030455  031462  005055
 >     0000006
 > and you can see the reversal of the pairs of bytes between the first
 > three lines, and also that the columns don't line up.
 
 i think this is the desired behaviour. indeed this is doing the way as i
 expect it to do.
 
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