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swab: /swob/ [From the mnemonic for the PDP-11 ‘SWAp
Byte’ instruction, as immortalized in the
dd(1)
option conv=swab (see
dd)]
1. vt. To solve the
NUXI problem by swapping bytes in a file
2. n. 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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