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

Simon Clubley clubley at remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP
Fri Jul 23 14:08:54 EDT 2021


On 2021-07-23, gah4 <gah4 at u.washington.edu> wrote:
>
> On little endian machines, od -x will give bytes to you in the order
>
> 1 0 3 2 5 4 7 6 9 8 11 10 13 12 15 14
>
> which isn't much easier to read than VMS order.  It doesn't make
> bytes easy, or 32 bit words (float), or larger values (double).
>
> I can get used to any of them, but I think I get used to the VMS
> ordering faster.
>

For me, the one I go to on Linux is "hexdump -C".

Of all the hexdump tools I have tried, the output from that command
is the most readable for me.

Simon.

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