nuxi problem

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<data, architecture> /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of transferring data between computers with differing byte order. The string "Unix" might look like "NUXI" on a machine with a different "byte sex" (e.g. when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa).

See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual. [Jargon File]

(2001-06-12)

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Refers to the problem of transferring data between machines with differing byte-order. The string “UNIX” might look like “NUXI” on a machine with a different byte sex (e.g., when transferring data from a little-endian to a big-endian, or vice-versa). See also middle-endian, swab, and bytesexual.