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NAME
bswap - swap the bytes in a file
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USAGE
bswap input output
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PARAMETERS
.ls input
The file to be swapped.
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.ls output
The name of the output swapped file.
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.ls wordswap = no
Swap four-byte longwords rather than pairs of bytes.
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DESCRIPTION
The \fIbswap\fR task reads the input file as a binary file,
writing the result to the output file.
Successive byte pairs are interchanged if \fIwordswap\fR=no,
otherwise the four bytes within each successive longword are swapped.
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EXAMPLES
1. Byte swap file A, writing the result to file B.

	cl> bswap a b
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BUGS
The input and output files cannot be the same.
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SEE ALSO
dataio.reblock
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