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. [Jargon File]Nearby terms:
S-Video ♦ SVR4 ♦ SVRC ♦ SVS ♦ swab ♦ SWAG ♦ swap ♦ swap file ♦ swapped in ♦ swapped out
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