From owner-freebsd-multimedia Fri Oct 8 7:42:32 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-multimedia@freebsd.org Received: from thelab.hub.org (nat203.183.mpoweredpc.net [142.177.203.183]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6B22514E22 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 07:42:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) Received: from localhost (scrappy@localhost) by thelab.hub.org (8.9.3/8.9.1) with ESMTP id LAA58420; Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:42:09 -0300 (ADT) (envelope-from scrappy@hub.org) X-Authentication-Warning: thelab.hub.org: scrappy owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 11:42:09 -0300 (ADT) From: The Hermit Hacker To: Soren Schmidt Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdd produces static ... In-Reply-To: <199910081434.QAA28001@freebsd.dk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > It seems The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > On Fri, 8 Oct 1999, Soren Schmidt wrote: > > > > > It seems The Hermit Hacker wrote: > > > > > Hmm, have you tried byteswapping the file ?? > > > > > > > > byteswapping? how? > > > > > > swapping the even and odd bytes of the file, fx with dd... > > > > thanks, I knew what byteswapping meant, but haven't got a clue how to do > > it...what is 'fx', and I just finished reading teh dd man page from start > > to finish, and nothing there talks about byteswapping... > > from man dd: > > conv= value[, value ...] > Where value is one of the symbols from the following list. > > ... > swab Swap every pair of input bytes. If an input buffer has > an odd number of bytes, the last byte will be ignored > during swapping. > > see ? now I do...'swab' to me means to 'clean', so I was reading the usage message in that context...why isn't it call'd 'swap' if that is what it does? :( Okay, trying that one now... Marc G. Fournier ICQ#7615664 IRC Nick: Scrappy Systems Administrator @ hub.org primary: scrappy@hub.org secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-multimedia" in the body of the message