SWAB


Meaning of SWAB in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ /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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