Re: enhancement request for a long word byte swap option for 'dd'

[Paul Eggert]

"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.