| i slightly prefer the former, but that's neither here nor there.  the
| only thing that ever irks me about hexdumps like this is the
| implication that the 00000001 (from yours) may or may not be in local
| byte order or network byte order.  for, eg, sparcs it makes no
| difference.  for intel it does.  im(ns)ho, it should *always* be in
| network byte order since that's the ordering my brain uses.

Umm, no. We should not choose which ordering simply to be compatible
with _your_ brain ;-)

More seriously, though, I think this is terribly wrong. The same ordering
as od -b uses would seem best.

--jhawk