Paul, Many thanks for your prompt response.
1 <existing practice> I've been googling for about a month or so on this and haven't found anything. I've also been bugging some developer colleagues, and about the best we can come up with is supplying a small byte-swap binary along with the script so it will run on Linux. I'm kinda loath to do this for 2 reasons: One, it defeats the purpose of a script (non-platform-specific) and two, my 'C' is pretty toxic. 2 < alternatives> All I'm looking for is an end-to-end swap. e.g. swap 0000f841 to 41f80000 so that 'od' will return 3.1000000e+01 3 <Implemented the solution> As I said my 'C' is toxic, but if I get something going on 1 above... Regards Mike Mike Lockhart Tier 2 Analyst 713-839-3188 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: Paul Eggert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, June 29, 2006 11:01 PM To: Mike Lockhart Cc: bug-coreutils@gnu.org Subject: Re: enhancement request for a long word byte swap option for 'dd' "Mike Lockhart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For 4-byte words (floats, long integers), however, this doesn't work. > > How does one go about asking for an enhancement, say, for 'dd' - You've done it. Thanks. To make it happen, it would help if you: * Looked for existing practice. Maybe some other dd has an option, or some dd competitor? (We can learn from their mistakes. :-) * Thought about the alternatives. With 2 bytes there's only one way to swap, but with 4 bytes you have 23 ways, and with 8 bytes you have 40,319 ways. How to specify them all? Or do they all need to be possible? * Implemented the solution, and provided a patch. Particularly, a patch to the documentation -- that's the hardest part. OK, OK, so I'm asking for a lot. But it is a volunteer organization here, we can always use more volunteers, and even if you can do only a part of the work, that would help. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This e-mail, including any attached files, may contain confidential and privileged information for the sole use of the intended recipient. Any review, use, distribution, or disclosure by others is strictly prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient (or authorized to receive information for the intended recipient), please contact the sender by reply e-mail and delete all copies of this message. _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list Bug-coreutils@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
