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[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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