27 Mar
2005
27 Mar
'05
1:09 p.m.
>>>> "Jules" == Jules Richardson
<julesrichardsonuk at yahoo.co.uk> writes:
Jules> FWIW, 'dd' supports the 'swab' argument to swap adjacent pairs
Jules> of bytes. Why it's called swab rather than swap, I don't know
Jules> - must have been done that way for a reason...
Because that's the opcode symbol for the PDP11 instruction that SWAps
Bytes, I would think.
paul