Robert Dodier wrote:
> Here is a patch to enable two new options for od,
> --source-byte-order and --force-byte-swap.

Is this to avoid using 'od -tx1'?

Often people mistakenly use 'od -x' outputing native machine word data
when they really want to output byte data using 'od -tx1'.  Native
words suffer from endian differences on different machines but byte
data is portable.

Bob


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