Swab

/swäb/

[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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