[Info-vax] Hex display order option for DUMP ?

[gah4]

On Thursday, July 22, 2021 at 1:11:09 PM UTC-7, Simon Clubley wrote:
> Can we please have an option in DUMP to display the hex values from 
> left to right (instead of from right to left), just like every other 
> hex dump program I have used does ? 

> By all means leave the default as it currently is, but VMS DUMP output 
> is hard to read when you are used to how all other dump programs 
> I have used do it. 

> Right to left might make some sense for looking at numeric values 
> when you are used to it, but it's a real pain when looking at pure 
> binary data. 

The disadvantage of little endian machines.  At least the bytes are in the
right order.  Consider Unix od -x, which prints 16 bit words, left to right, but
the bytes in each word are the wrong order.  

It is, to me, much easier to read the whole byte sequence backwords,
instead of just each word.   Well, actually, I can almost read text backwards,
but that is a different question. 

Boycott little-endian machines, until the problem goes away.