>> I think it will be less confusing if  hexdump (default) display "bytes".
>
>The hexdump is NetBSD-current has the cool "-C" option:
>
>% hexdump -C test_hex
>00000000  31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38  39 31 32 33 34 35 36 37  |1234567891234567|
>00000010  38 39 30 31 32 33 34 35  36 37 38 39 30 31 32 0a  |890123456789012.|
>00000020

that *is* cool.  but i still think it'd be cooler if "od -tx1" still
worked...

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