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Re: enhancement request for a long word byte swap option for 'dd'
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Paul Eggert |
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Re: enhancement request for a long word byte swap option for 'dd' |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:00:49 -0700 |
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Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) |
"Mike Lockhart" <address@hidden> 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.