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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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