At 2006-04-26 22:58:25 +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Can someone elucidate what sort of code this is? this is going to bug > me until I find out!
It's just every pair of bytes reversed:
$ echo 1234|dd conv=swab
2143
$ echo mohandeepa|dd conv=swab
omahdneeap
The "swab" is for "swap bytes".
(But please don't ask me to explain /why/ such a thing as conv=swab
exists. Alas, it's not only for obfuscating mailing list posts.)
-- ams
