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