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

[Simon Clubley]

On 2021-07-23, VAXman-  @SendSpamHere.ORG <VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG> wrote:
> In article <sdcskm$7k3$1 at dont-email.me>, Stephen Hoffman <seaohveh at hoffmanlabs.invalid> writes:
>>On 2021-07-22 20:11:06 +0000, Simon Clubley said:
>>
>>> 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 ?
>>
>>You prefer the big endian format? Little-endian is easier to read 
>>numbers. But okay.
>
> I think Simon's request is a stupid way to display little endian data.  
>

Did everyone miss the part of my posting where I pointed out the
current way has advantages for little endian data but also that
it's a real pain for binary data ? :-)

Binary data can be (for example) non-printable characters in data
(which is what caused me to make this request).

Simon.

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