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Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 13:41:00 -0400 (EDT)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Dave Korn <dave DOT korn AT artimi DOT com>
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Subject: RE: Byte-order in od -x (Win2K)
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On Tue, 28 Jun 2005, Dave Korn wrote:

Probably TITTTL material, but...

>   Now, I'd certainly agree that short int is a strange default for od (as
> indeed is octal, which it defaults to if you don't specify a base
> explicitly);

Why would octal be a strange default for a program called "octal dump"?
;-)

> but it's not 'strange' and nothing is 'transposed', it's simply
> correct-albeit-unexpected behaviour.

HTH,
	Igor
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