[Info-vax] General VMS enhancement ideas for VSI

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Sun Jul 9 19:53:35 EDT 2017


In article <oju8fa$lia$2 at dont-email.me>, Simon Clubley <clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> writes:
>I've been looking at the DCL issue today; no firm answers yet
>(although thankfully it's now looking less likely to be
>exploitable now I understand the root cause better [*]) but I do
>now have a series of enhancement ideas for VSI. :-)
>
>1) The dump/record and SDA examine hex dumps are hard to read as
>the hex part of the dump is the reverse of what you would expect
>these days. It's nice if you have little endian longwords to read
>but for everything else it's a real pain.

DUMP is right; the other way is fucking stupid.


>Can we have an option to switch the output order on the hex dump ?

Stand on your head.


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