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}.
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