swab
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swab
/swob/ The PDP-11 swap byte instruction mnemonic, as
immortalised in the dd option "conv=swab".
1. To solve the NUXI problem by swapping bytes in a file.
2. The program in V7 Unix used to perform this action, or
anything functionally equivalent to it.
See also big-endian, little-endian, middle-endian,
bytesexual.
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