Re: Od - man page

[Jim Meyering]

Thanks for the suggestion.
I'm forwarding your message to the bug-reporting list
address@hidden, where someone else might reply
before I do.  In such cases, it's usually helpful
to show a small example of the output that you got
and what made it seem confusing or inconsistent with
the texinfo documentation (`info od').

Cintia Del Rio <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi, I was trying to use the od program, and I had a hard time to
> understand what it was doing... I'm in a little endian machine (it
> does not look so easy to understand at all), and I used the -x option.
>  I believed that it will impress not two bytes, but two hexa digits.
>
> it just showed funny things, as you can imagine : I was especting a
> byte, not two. I wasn't able to understand what does the -t could be,
> neither what was a hexadecimal short.
>
> After that, I went to google, and I find some other people that got
> confused too (in Portuguese =P ). I mean, could you in another version
>  (I got the 5.2.1, I guess it's the lastest) make it a little bit more
> clear =))))  ??? I would be glad =)
>
> Thanks a lot for "listen to" me
>
> I enjoyed this program a lot =)
>
> kisses
>
> --
> Cintia Del Rio