NUXI problem

data, architecture /nuk'see pro'bl*m/ The problem of

transferring data between computers with differing byteorder. 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)