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NUXI problemNUXI 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. |
The Jargon FileCartoonsThe crunchly saga
The infamous Crunchly cartoons by The Great Quux are woven into the lexicon, each next to an appropriate entry. To read them in the sequence in which they were written, chase pointers from here using the ‘next cartoon’ information in the captions. |
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