Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com From: Mark Himsley To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: od Date: Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:28:47 +0000 Message-ID: References: <200202151406.g1FE6RO02178@otaku.freeshell.org> In-Reply-To: <200202151406.g1FE6RO02178@otaku.freeshell.org> X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.9/32.560 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On Fri, 15 Feb 2002 14:06:27 GMT you wrote: >I created at test file with 4 characters in it: > > HTTP > >Then, I run od -bcx and I get: > >110 124 124 120 012 000 > H T T P \n \0 >5448 5054 000a That is correct in this little-endian platform, see http://info.astrian.net/jargon/terms/l/little-endian.html >You can see that the hex values in the last line are reversed. >I think they should be 4854 5450 000a. Only if you were on a big-endian platform. -- Mark Himsley In Acton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/