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From: Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of octal
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 20:09:49 -0000 (UTC)
Organization: Some absurd concept
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In comp.os.linux.misc, Louis Krupp  <lkrupp@invalid.pssw.com.invalid> wrote:
> This is crude, but it seems to work for the post you're replying to, 
> with big-endian two-byte integers:

[snip C code with Unicode whitespace]

> To read a sequence of two-byte octal little-endian integers, swap w.c[1] 
> and w.c[0].

Or you could just pipe the output through `dd conv=swab`.

Elijah
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whose c compiler doesn't like non-ASCII whitespace