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

[Bill Gunshannon]

On 7/23/21 2:08 PM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> 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.
> 


So port it to VMS and make it your contribution to the Open Source
on VMS collections.

bill