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From: Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc
Subject: Re: The joy of octal
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2024 07:29:12 -0500
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Louis Krupp wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:

> On 11/11/2024 1:58 PM, Chris Ahlstrom wrote:
>> John Ames wrote this post while blinking in Morse code:
>>
>>> On Sat, 9 Nov 2024 09:36:58 -0500
>>> Chris Ahlstrom <OFeem1987@teleworm.us> wrote:
>>>
>>>> 020111 067544 023556 020164 062556 062145 067040 020157 072163 062545
>>>> 065556 067151 020147 062550 060570 062544 064543 060555 020554 005012
>>> 041165 072040 073350 060564 020151 063040 074557 072447 071145 020167
>>> 071151 072151 067147 020146 071157 066400 060440 061151 063455 062556
>>> 062151 060556 020155 060543 064151 067145 027056 027077
>> Damn, I still haven't found a program that would easily reverse octal to a
>> string.
>>
>
> This is crude, but it seems to work for the post you're replying to, 
> with big-endian two-byte integers:
>
> ===
> #include <stdio.h>
>
> int main(void)
> {
>      union {
>          unsigned short s;
>          char c[2];
>      } w;
>      unsigned int wi;
>      char junk;
>
>      while (scanf("%o%c", &wi, &junk) > 0) {
>          w.s = wi;
>          printf("%c%c", w.c[1], w.c[0]);
>      }
>      printf("\n");
>
>      return 0;
> }
> ===
>
> To read a sequence of two-byte octal little-endian integers, swap w.c[1] 
> and w.c[0].

Thanks!

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