i've attached a little program that extends
seq to print sequences in hex or octal.  for example,

	;  seq.rc -f %.4x 0x3b1 0x3b2
	03b1
	03b2

i did it in rc (really awk) because it was too tedious
to get the details right in c.

as such, formats are as in printf(2) not as in print(2).
this is a bug, but i don't see a reasonable workaround.

even using awk and adding functionality, the new
program is *way* faster than seq:

	; >/dev/null time seq 1 100000
	1.90u 0.09s 1.99r 	 seq 1 100000
	; >/dev/null time seq.rc 1 100000
	0.28u 0.00s 0.29r 	 seq.rc 1 100000

- erik