May 15, 2003

NUXI problem

/nuk´see pro´bl@m/ n.

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.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:36 AM

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