On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, joe at smittys.pointclark.net wrote: > Quoting Peter Stuge <peter at stuge.se>: > [..] >> >> dd if=/dev/ioport bs=1 skip=$[0xbasehere] count=asmanyasyouwant | xxd >> > > 3. What is the pipe xxd for? > The default output of dd is stdout, so it writes stdout to file xxd. However, why not use of=xxd instead? Same result. Russ