Big-endian to little-endian?

[Andrew F Greenwood]

Hi,

I have a file that I want to be able to convert on HPUX so that it can be used on WinNT (on i386). It needs to be converted from big-endian to little-endian, a process that currently happens on the NT box.

For scheduling reasons I would like this to happen on HPUX - does anyone know how? It looks as if the GNU version of cpio has some added functionality in this area, but I didn't get too far with that route.

Any help much appreciated.

[Tom Geudens]

Hi,
Try
#man swab

Regards,
Tom Geudens

[harry d brown jr · Accepted solution]

You can also use "dd conv=swab if= of="

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harry

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Hi Steve:

Dd using the conv=swab option will do this but typically the conversions are not that simple. The text data does not need to be 'swabbed' while the binary integer data and floating point data does. It is rather common to have to write a small c program to do this but you may be one of the lucky few.