dcoffin AT cybercom DOT net wrote: > Eric Blake wrote: > > Thanks for the patch, but it has several problems. First, I'm not > > sure we need short options, or that the documentation need call > > out Intel and Motorola (after all, there are other chip > > manufacturers as well, Motorola has spun off their chip division > > to Freescale, etc.).
Agreed. > Actually, the use of "I" for Intel and "M" for Motorola > is a longstanding tradition. Every TIFF file begins with > either "II" or "MM" to indicate byte order, and other file > formats do likewise. I disagree. This is one area that definitely goes back a long time. See this reference for example. http://www.ietf.org/rfc/ien/ien137.txt I suggest using the standard solution of specifying the size to be byte sized. This produces the same output on both platforms. echo abcdefgh | od -t cx1 0000000 a b c d e f g h \n 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 0a 0000011 Bob _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
