Date: Fri, 8 Oct 1999 16:34:24 +0200 (CEST) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@freebsd.dk> To: scrappy@hub.org (The Hermit Hacker) Cc: freebsd-multimedia@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: cdd produces static ... Message-ID: <199910081434.QAA28001@freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.10.9910081126420.30583-100000@thelab.hub.org> from The Hermit Hacker at "Oct 8, 1999 11:27:22 am"
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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 ?
-Soren
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