[BusyBox] `od' applet?

[Glenn McGrath]

On Sat, 27 Oct 2001 18:35:08 +0200
"Thierry Laronde" <tlaronde at polynum.com> wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 27, 2001 at 11:35:23AM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote:
> > The source to od looks pretty messy, a lot of the one use functions
are
> > actually used in a function pointer.
> > 
> > Looking at the netbsd man page, od has been depreciated there in
favour
> > of hexdump. which is also a smaller binary than od (for the full
thing),
> > so maybe hexdump would be a better choice than od.
> > 
> > hexdump is in bsdmainutils 
> 
> I will try to give it a look but only God knows when...
>

Actually im working on it now, based on the hexdump code from
linux-utils.

hexdump and od are 98% the same code, just different getopt code.

I had a version working a few hours ago but did something wrong and
decided to start again, if it doesnt work this time ill be putting it on
the backburner.



Glenn