byte-order calculator (type bytes & get words)

[Liam R. E. Quin]

Mark Brader pointed out to me that I made an error in describing the little
awk script I posted to alt.sources ---

In article <1989Dec6.024228.4332 at sq.sq.com> lee at sq.com (Liam R. E. Quin) writes:
>	sane, mc68k, mc68000 -- least significant "clump" is on the left
>	intel, vax -- least significant "clump" is on the right
This is, of course, the wrong way round, and should read
>	sane, mc68k, mc68000 -- most significant "clump" is on the left
>	intel, vax -- most significant "clump" is on the right
Sorry for any confusion.  The code was correct.

Also, for people who don't like "sane" here -- note that I am not saying
intel is "insane" -- in fact, if it were present, an "insane" comamnd would
make bcalc use completely random byte ordering on each input line, just to
liven up those late-night sessions...
But I find the intel ordering confusing when typing at "bc", and after a
few (sometimes zero :-) minutes start making errors, which is why I wrote
the script.

Lee

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Liam R. Quin, Unixsys (UK) Ltd [note: not an employee of "sq" - a visitor!]
lee at sq.com (Whilst visiting Canada from England, until Christmas)
 ...striving to promote the interproduction of epimorphistic conformability
 [attributed to Bertrand Russell, when he was two-and-a-half (?) years old]