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From: det@hawkmoon.MN.ORG (Derek E. Terveer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: NEED HELP: fread, fwrite, fseek, ftell
Summary: try dd conv=swab
Keywords: AAAAAAAAARRRRRGGGHHH
Message-ID: <929@hawkmoon.MN.ORG>
Date: 12 May 89 13:13:43 GMT
References: <7327@mrspoc.UUCP>
Organization: One of the Eternal Champions - Richfield, MN, 554232523, USA
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In article <7327@mrspoc.UUCP>, itkin@mrspoc.UUCP (Steven M. List) writes:
> I am trying to write a simple little program to swap bytes and/or words
> in a file.

I'm not sure if this will do what you want, but you might want to check out the
command:

	dd if=file_name conv=swab

which swaps every pair of bytes in the input stream.  dd(1m)

derek
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