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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>swab</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../S.html" title="S"/><link rel="previous" href="Suzie-COBOL.html" title="Suzie COBOL"/><link rel="next" href="swap.html" title="swap"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">swab</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Suzie-COBOL.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">S</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="swap.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="swab"/><dt xmlns="" id="swab"><b>swab</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/swob/</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [From the mnemonic for the <a href="../P/PDP-11.html"><i class="glossterm">PDP-11</i></a> ‘SWAp
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Byte’ instruction, as immortalized in the
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">dd</span>(1)</span>
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option <b class="command">conv=swab</b> (see
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<a href="../D/dd.html"><i class="glossterm">dd</i></a>)] </p></dd><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To solve the
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<a href="../N/NUXI-problem.html"><i class="glossterm">NUXI problem</i></a> by swapping bytes in a file </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">n.</span> The program in V7 Unix
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used to perform this action, or anything functionally equivalent to it.
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See also <a href="../B/big-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">big-endian</i></a>,
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<a href="../L/little-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">little-endian</i></a>, <a href="../M/middle-endian.html"><i class="glossterm">middle-endian</i></a>,
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<a href="../B/bytesexual.html"><i class="glossterm">bytesexual</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Suzie-COBOL.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../S.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="swap.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Suzie COBOL </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> swap</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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