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Subject: The Jargon File v2.3.1 03 JAN 1991, part 9 of 11
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X   to a random text address.  This can produce some of the most
X   insidious data-dependent bugs known to mankind.  Variants include
X   `trash the stack', `<scribble> the stack', `<mangle> the stack';
X   `<mung> the stack' is not used as this is never done intentionally.
X   See <spam>; see also <aliasing bug>, <fandango on core>, <memory
X   leak>, <precedence lossage>, <overrun screw>.
X
X<smiley> n. See <emoticon>.
X
X<smoke test> n. 1. A rudimentary form of testing applied to electronic
X   equipment following repair or reconfiguration in which AC power is
X   applied and during which the tester checks for sparks, smoke, or
X   other dramatic signs of fundamental failure.  2. By extension, the
X   first run of a piece of software after construction or a critical
X   change.  See <magic smoke>.
X
X<smoking clover> [ITS] n. A <display hack> originally due to Bill
X   Gosper.  Many convergent lines are drawn on a color monitor in AOS
X   mode (so that every pixel struck has its color incremented).  The
X   color map is then rotated.  The lines all have one endpoint in the
X   middle of the screen; the other endpoints are spaced one pixel
X   apart around the perimeter of a large square.  This results in a
X   striking, rainbow-hued, shimmering four-leaf clover.  Gosper joked
X   about keeping it hidden from the FDA lest it be banned.
X
X<SMOP> /smop/ [Simple (or Small) Matter of Programming] n. 1. A piece
X   of code, not yet written, whose anticipated length is significantly
X   greater than its complexity.  Usage: used to refer to a program
X   that could obviously be written, but is not worth the trouble.  It
X   is also used ironically to imply that a difficult problem can be
X   easily solved because a program can be written to do it; the irony
X   is that it is very clear that writing such a program will be a
X   great deal of work.  Example: "It's easy to change a FORTRAN
X   compiler to compile COBOL as well; it's just a SMOP."  2. Often
X   used ironically by the intended victim when a suggestion for a
X   program is made which seems easy to the suggester, but is obviously
X   a lot of work to the programmer.
X
X<snail-mail> n. Paper mail, as opposed to electronic.  Sometimes
X   written as the single word `SnailMail'.  Derives from earlier
X   coinage `USnail' for which there have been parody posters and
X   stamps made.  Oppose <email>.
X
X<snarf> /snarf/ v. 1. To grab, esp. a large document or file for the
X   purpose of using it either with or without the author's permission.
X   See <BLT>.  Variant: "snarf down", to snarf, sometimes with the
X   connotation of absorbing, processing, or understanding.  "I think
X   I'll snarf down the list of DDT commands so I'll know what's
X   changed recently."  2. [in the UNIX community] to fetch a file or
X   set of files across a network.  See also <blast>.
X
X<snarf & barf> /snarf-n-barf/ n. The act of grabbing a region of text
X   using a <WIMP> environment and then stuffing the contents of that
X   region into another region or into the same region, to avoid
X   re-typing a command line.
X
X<snark> [Lewis Carroll, via the Michigan Terminal System] n. 1. A
X   system failure.  When a user's process bombed, the operator would
X   get a message "Help, Help, Snark in MTS!".  2. More generally,
X   any kind of unexplained or threatening event on a computer.  Often
X   used to refer to events or log file entries which might indicate an
X   attempted security violation.  3. UUCP name of snark.thyrsus.com,
X   home site of the Jargon File 2.x.x versions.
X
X<sneakernet> n. Term used (generally with ironic intent) for transfer
X   of electronic information by physically carrying tape, disks, or
X   some other media from one machine to another.  "Never
X   underestimate the bandwidth of a station wagon filled with magtape,
X   or a 747 filled with CD-ROMs."  Also called "Tennis-Net",
X   "Armpit-Net".
X
X<sniff> v.,n. Synonym for POLL.
X
X<S.O.> /ess-oh/ n. Acronym for Significant Other, almost invariably
X   written abbreviated and pronounced "ess-oh" by hackers.  In fact
X   the form without periods "SO" is most common.  Used to refer to
X   one's primary relationship, esp. a live-in to whom one is not
X   married.  See <MOTAS>, <MOTOS>, <MOTSS>.
X
X<softcopy> n. [by analogy with `hardcopy'] A machine readable form of
X   corresponding hardcopy.  See <bits>.
X
X<software bloat> n.  The results of <second system effect>.  Commonly
X   cited examples include `ls(1)', <X>, <BSD>, <Missed'em-five> and
X   <OS/2>OS/2.
X
X<software rot> n. (Also known as <bit decay>, <bit rot>) Hypothetical
X   disease the existence of which has been deduced from the
X   observation that unused programs or features will often stop
X   working after sufficient time has passed, even if "nothing has
X   changed".  The theory explains that bits decay as if they were
X   radioactive.  As time passes, the contents of a file or the code in
X   a program will become increasingly garbled.
X
X   There actually are physical processes that produce such effects
X   (the alpha particles such as are found in cosmic rays can change
X   the contents of a computer memory unpredictably, and various kinds
X   of subtle media failures can corrupt files in mass storage) but
X   they are quite rare.
X
X   More commonly, "software rot" strikes when a program's
X   assumptions become out of date.  If the design was insufficiently
X   <robust> it may fail in mysterious ways.  For example, due to
X   endemic shortsightedness in the design of COBOL programs, most will
X   succumb to software rot when their two-digit year counters wrap
X   around at the beginning of the year 2000.
X
X   Historical note: software rot in an even funnier sense than the
X   mythical one was a real problem on early research computers (e. g.
X   the R1, see <grind crank>).  If a program that depended on a
X   peculiar instruction hadn't been run in quite a while, the user
X   might discover that the opcodes no longer did the things as they
X   used to.  ("Hey, so-and-so needs an instruction to do
X   such-and-such.  We can snarf this one, right?  No one uses it.")
X
X<softwarily> /soft-weir'i-lee/ adv.  In a way pertaining to software.
X   "The system is softwarily unreliable."  The adjective
X   "softwary" is *not* used.  See <hardwarily>.
X
X<some random X> adj. Used to indicate a member of class X, with the
X   implication that the particular X is interchangeable with most
X   other Xs in whatever context was being discussed. "I think some
X   random cracker tripped over the guest timeout last night."
X
X<sorcerer's apprentice mode> n. A bug in a protocol where, under some
X   circumstances, the receipt of a message causes more than one
X   message to be sent, each of which, when received, triggers the same
X   bug.  Used esp. of such behavior caused by <bounce message> loops
X   in <email> software.  Compare <broadcast storm>.
X
X<SOS> n.,obs. /ess-oh-ess/ 1. An infamously <losing> text editor.
X   Once, back in the 1960's, when a text editor was needed for the
X   PDP-6, a hacker crufted togrther a quick-and-dirty "stopgap
X   editor" to be used until a better one was written.  Unfortunately,
X   the old one was never really discarded when new ones (in
X   particular, <TECO>) came along.  SOS is a descendant of that
X   editor; SOS means "Son of Stopgap", and many PDP-10 users gained
X   the dubious pleasure of its acquaintance.  Since then other
X   programs similar in style to SOS have been written, notably BILOS
X   (bye'lohss) the Brother-In-Law Of Stopgap. See also <TECO>.  2.
X   /sahss/ n. Inverse of <AOS>, from the PDP-10 instruction set.
X
X<space-cadet keyboard> n. The Knight keyboard, a now-legendary device
X   used on MIT LISP machines which inspired several still-current
X   slang terms and influenced the design of <EMACS>.  It was inspired
X   by the Stanford keyboard and equipped with no less than
X   *seven* shift keys: four keys for <bucky bits> (`control',
X   `meta', `hyper', and `super') and three like the regular shift key,
X   called `shift', `top', and `front'.  Many keys have three symbols
X   on them: a letter and a symbol on the top, and a Greek letter on
X   the front.  For example, the "L" key has an "L" and a two-way
X   arrow on the top, and the Greek letter lambda on the front.  If you
X   press this key with the right hand while playing an appropriate
X   "chord" with the left hand on the shift keys, you can get the
X   following results:
X
X     L lower-case "l"
X     shift-L upper-case "L"
X     front-L Greek lower-case lambda
X     front-shift-L Greek upper-case lambda
X     top-L two-way arrow (front and shift are ignored)
X
X   And of course each of these may also be typed with any combination
X   of the control, meta, hyper, and super keys.  On this keyboard you
X   can type over 8000 different characters!  This allows the user to
X   type very complicated mathematical text, and also to have thousands
X   of single-character commands at his disposal.  Many hackers were
X   actually willing to memorize the command meanings of that many
X   characters if it will reduce typing time (this view rather
X   obviously shaped the interface of EMACS).  Other hackers, however,
X   thought having that many bucky bits is overkill, and object that
X   such a keyboard can require three or four hands to operate.  See
X   <bucky bits>, <cokebottle>, <meta bit>.
X
X<SPACEWAR> n. A space-combat simulation game first implemented on the
X   PDP-1 at MIT in 1960-61. SPACEWAR aficionados formed the core of
X   the early hacker culture at MIT. Ten years later a descendant of
X   the game motivated Ken Thompson to build, in his spare time on a
X   scavenged PDP-7, the operating system that became <UNIX>. Ten years
X   after that, SPACEWAR was commercialized as one of the first video
X   games; descendants are still feeping in video arcades everywhere.
X
X<spaghetti code> n. Describes code with a complex and tangled control
X   structure, esp. one using many GOTOs, exceptions or other
X   `unstructured' branching constructs.  Pejorative.  The synonym
X   "kangaroo code" has been reported.
X
X<spaghetti inheritance> n. [Encountered among users of object-oriented
X   languages that use inheritance, such as Smalltalk] A convoluted
X   class-subclass graph, often resulting from carelessly deriving
X   subclasses from other classes just for the sake of reusing their
X   code.  Coined in a (successful) attempt to discourage such
X   practice, through guilt by association with <spaghetti code>.
X
X<spam> [from the <MUD> community] v. To crash a program by overrunning
X   a fixed-size buffer with excessively large input data.  See also
X   <overrun screw>, <smash the stack>.
X
X<spell> n. Syn. <incantation>.
X
X<spiffy> /spi'fee/ adj. 1. Said of programs having a pretty, clever or
X   exceptionally well-designed interface. "Have you seen the spiffy X
X   version of <empire> yet?" 2. Said sarcastically of programs which
X   are perceived to have little more than a flashy interface going for
X   them.  Which meaning should be drawn depends delicately on tone of
X   voice and context.
X
X<spin> v. Equivalent to <buzz>.  More common among C and UNIX
X   programmers.
X
X<spin-lock> [Cambridge] n. A <busy-wait>.  Preferred in Britain.
X
X<splat> n. 1. Name used in many places (DEC, IBM, and others) for the
X   ASCII asterisk ("*") character.  2. [MIT] Name used by some
X   people for the ASCII number-sign ("#") character.  3. [Stanford]
X   Name used by some people for the Stanford/ITS extended ASCII
X   circle-x character.  (This character is also called "circle-x",
X   "blobby", and "frob", among other names.)  4. [Stanford] Name
X   for the semi-mythical extended ASCII circle-plus character.  5.
X   Canonical name for an output routine that outputs whatever the
X   local interpretation of splat is.  5. [Rochester Institute of
X   Technology] The command key on a Macintosh.  Usage: nobody really
X   agrees what character "splat" is, but the term is common.
X
X<spooge> /spooj/ 1. n. Inexplicable or arcane code, or random and
X   probably incorrect output from a computer program.  2. v. To
X   generate code or output as in definition 1.
X
X<spool> [fr. early IBM "Simultaneous Peripheral Operation Off-Line",
X   but this acronym is widely thought to have been contrived for
X   effect] v. To send files to some device or program (a `spooler')
X   that queues them up and does something useful with them later.  The
X   spooler usually understood is the `print spooler' controlling
X   output of jobs to a printer, but the term has been used in
X   connection with other peripherals (especially plotters and graphics
X   devices).
X
X<stack> n. A person's stack is the set of things he has to do in the
X   future.  One speaks of the next project to be attacked as having
X   risen to the top of the stack.  "I'm afraid I've got real work to
X   do, so this'll have to be pushed way down on my stack."  "I
X   haven't done it yet because every time I pop my stack something new
X   gets pushed."  If you are interrupted several times in the middle
X   of a conversation, "my stack overflowed" means "I forget what we
X   were talking about" (the implication is that too many items were
X   pushed onto the stack than could be remembered, and so the least
X   recent items were lost).  The usual physical example of a stack is
X   to be found in a cafeteria: a pile of plates sitting on a spring in
X   a well in a cart, so that when you put a plate on the top they all
X   sink down, and when you take one off the top the rest spring up a
X   bit.  See also <PUSH> and <POP>.
X
X   At MIT, all the <stack> usages used to be more commonly found with
X   <pdl>, and this may still be true.  Everywhere else <stack> seems
X   to be the preferred term.
X
X<stack puke> n. Some micros are said to "puke their guts onto the
X   stack" to save their internal state during exception processing.
X   On a pipelined machine this can take a while (up to 92 bytes for a
X   bus fault on the 68020, for example).
X
X<stale pointer bug> n. Synonym for <aliasing bug> used esp. among
X   microcomputer hackers.
X
X<state> n. Condition, situation.  "What's the state of your latest
X   hack?"  "It's winning away."  "The system tried to read and
X   write the disk simultaneously and got into a totally wedged
X   state."  A standard question is "What's your state?" which means
X   "What are you doing?" or "What are you about to do?"  Typical
X   answers might be "I'm about to gronk out", or "I'm hungry".
X   Another standard question is "What's the state of the world?"
X   meaning "What's new?" or "What's going on?". The more terse and
X   humorous way of asking these conventions would be "State-p?".
X
X<stiffy> [ULowell] n. 3.5" <microfloppies>, so called because their
X   jackets are more firm than the 5.25" and 8" floppy.
X
X<stir-fried random> alt. <stir-fried mumble> n. Term used for frequent
X   best dish of those hackers who can cook.  Consists of random fresh
X   veggies and meat wokked with random spices.  Tasty and economical.
X   See <random>, <great-wall>, <ravs>, <ORIENTAL FOOD>; see also
X   <mumble>.
X
X<stomp on> v.  To inadvertently overwrite something important, usually
X   automatically.  Example: "All the work I did this weekend got
X   stomped on last night by the nightly-server script."  Compare
X   <scribble>, <mangle>, <trash>, <scrog>, <roach>.
X
X<stoppage> /sto'p@j/ n. Extreme lossage (see <lossage>) resulting in
X   something (usually vital) becoming completely unusable.  "The
X   recent system stoppage was caused by a <fried> transformer."
X
X<stubroutine> /stuhb'roo-teen/ [contr. of "stub routine"] n. Tiny,
X   often vacuous placeholder for a subroutine to be written or fleshed
X   out later.
X
X<stunning> adj. Mind-bogglingly stupid.  Usually used in sarcasm.
X   "You want to code *what* in ADA? That's...a stunning idea!"
X   See also <non-optimal solution>.
X
X<subshell> [UNIX, MS-DOS] n. An OS command interpreter (see <shell>)
X   spawned from within a program, such that exit from the command
X   interpreter returns one to the parent program in a state that
X   allows it to continue execution.  Oppose <chain>.
X
X<sucking mud> [Applied Digital Research] adj.  Crashed or wedged.
X   Usually said of a machine that provides some service to a network,
X   such as a file server.  This Dallas regionalism derives from the
X   East Texas oil field lament, "Shut 'er down, Ma, she's a-suckin'
X   mud."  Often used as a query.  "We are going to reconfigure the
X   network, are you ready to suck mud?"
X
X<suit> n. 1. Ugly and uncomfortable `business clothing' often worn by
X   non-hackers.  Invariably worn with a `tie', a strangulation device
X   which partially cuts off the blood supply to the brain.  It is
X   thought that this explains much about the behavior of suit-
X   wearers. 2. A person who habitually wears suits, as distinct from a
X   techie or hacker.  See <loser>, <burble> and <brain-damaged>.
X   English, BTW, is relatively kind; our Soviet correspondent informs
X   us that the corresponding idiom in Russian hacker jargon is
X   `sovok', lit. a tool for grabbing garbage.
X
X<sunspots> n. Notional cause of an odd error. "Why did the program
X   suddenly turn the screen blue?" "Sunspots, I guess".  Also cause
X   of bitrot, from the genuine, honest-to-god fact that sunspots will
X   increase cosmic radiation which can flip single bits in memory.
X   Needless to say, although real sunspot errors happen, they are
X   extremely rare.  See <cosmic rays>, <phase of the moon>.
X
X<sun-stools> n. Unflattering hackerism for SunTools, a pre-X windowing
X   environment notorious in its day for size, slowness and misfeatures
X   (X, however, is larger and slower; see <second-system effect>).
X
X<SUPDUP> /soop'doop/ v. To communicate with another ARPAnet host using
X   the SUPDUP program, which is a SUPer-DUPer <TELNET> talking a
X   special display protocol used mostly in talking to ITS sites.
X   Sometimes abbreviated to SD.
X
X<superprogrammer> n.  A prolific programmer; one who can code
X   exceedingly well and quickly.  Not all hackers are
X   superprogrammers, but many are.  (Productivity can vary from one
X   programmer to another by factors of as much as 1000.  For example,
X   programmer A might be able to write an average of 3 lines of
X   working code in one day, while another, with the proper tools and
X   skill, might be able to write 3,000 lines of working code in one
X   day.  This variance is astonishing, appearing in very few other
X   areas of human endeavor.)  The term superprogrammer is more
X   commonly used within such places as IBM than in the hacker
X   community.  It tends to stress productivity rather than creativity
X   or ingenuity.  Hackers tend to prefer the terms <hacker> and
X   <wizard>.
X
X<Suzie COBOL> /soo'zee koh'bol/ 1. [IBM, prob. fr.  Frank Zappa's
X   "little Suzy Creamcheese"] n. A coder straight out of training
X   school who knows everything except the benefits of comments in
X   plain English.  Also (fashionable among personkind wishing to avoid
X   accusations of sexism) `Sammy Cobol' or (in some non-IBM circles)
X   `Cobol Charlie'.  2.  [proposed] Meta-name for any <code grinder>,
X   analogous to <J. Random Hacker>.
X
X<swab> [From the PDP-11 "byte swap" instruction, and immortalized in
X   the option "conv=swab" to <DD>] 1. v. to solve the <NUXI problem>
X   by swapping bytes in a file. 2. Also, the program in V7 UNIX used
X   to perform this action, or anything functionally equivalent to it.
X   See also <big-endian>, <little-endian>, <bytesexual>.
X
X<swap space> n. Storage space. "I'm just using that corner of the
X   machine room for swap space".
X
X<swapped> adj. From the older (per-task) method of using secondary
X   storage devices to implement support for multitasking.  Something
X   which is <swapped in> is available for immediate use in main
X   memory, and otherwise is <swapped out>.  Often used metaphorically
X   to refer to people's memories ("I read the Scheme Report every few
X   months to keep the information swapped in.") or to their own
X   availability ("I'll swap you in as soon as I finish looking at
X   this other problem.").  Compare <page in>, <page out>.
X
X<swizzle> v. To convert external names or references within a data
X   structure into direct pointers when the data structure is brought
X   into main memory from external storage; also called "pointer
X   swizzling"; the converse operation is sometimes termed
X   <unswizzling>.
X
X<sync> /sink/ [UNIX] n.,v. 1. To force all pending I/O to the disk.
X   2.  More generally, to force a number of competing processes or
X   agents to a state that would be `safe' if the system were to crash;
X   thus, to checkpoint.  See <flush>.
X
X<syntactic sugar> [coined by Peter Landin] n. Features added to a
X   language or formalism to make it `sweeter' for humans, that do not
X   affect the expressiveness of the formalism (compare <chrome>). Used
X   esp.  when there is an obvious and trivial translation of the
X   `sugar' feature into other constructs already present in the
X   notation.  Example: C's "a[i]" notation is syntactic sugar for
X   "*(a + i)".  "Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon."
X   --- Alan Perlis.
X
X<sys-frog> [the PLATO system] n. Playful hackish variant of
X   "sysprog" which is in turn short for "systems-programmer".
X
X<system> n. 1. The supervisor program or OS on a computer.  2. n.  The
X   entire computer system, including input/output devices, the
X   supervisor program or OS, and possibly other software.  3. Any
X   large-scale program.  4. Any method or algorithm.  5. The way
X   things are usually done.  Usage: a fairly ambiguous word.  "You
X   can't beat the system."  <System hacker>: one who hacks the system
X   (in sense 1 only; for sense 2 one mentions the particular program:
X   e.g., "lisp hacker")
X
X                                {= T =}
X
X<t> /tee/ 1. [from LISP terminology for "true"] Yes.  Usage: used in
X   reply to a question, particularly one asked using the "-P"
X   convention).  See NIL.  In LISP, the name T means "true", among
X   other things.  Some hackers use "T" and "NIL" instead of
X   "yes" and "no" almost reflexively.  This sometimes causes
X   misunderstandings.  When a waiter or flight attendant asks whether
X   a hacker wants coffee, he may well respond "T", meaning that he
X   wants coffee; but of course he will be brought a cup of tea
X   instead.  As it happens, most hackers like tea at least as well as
X   coffee, particularly those who frequent Chinese restaurants, so
X   it's not that big a problem.  2. See <time t>. 3. In
X   transaction-processing circles, an abbreviation for the noun
X   "transaction". 4. [Purdue] Alternate spelling of <tee>
X
X<tail recursion> n. See <tail recursion>.
X
X<talk mode> n. The state a terminal is in when linked to another via a
X   bidirectional character pipe, to support on-line dialogue between
X   two or more users.  Talk mode has a special set of jargon words,
X   used to save typing, which are not used orally:
X
X     BCNU      Be seeing you.
X     BTW       By the way...
X     BYE?      Are you ready to unlink?  (This is the standard way to
X               end a talk mode conversation; the other person types BYE
X               to confirm, or else continues the conversation.)
X     CUL       See you later.
X     ENQ?      Are you busy? Expects ACK or NAK in return.
X     FOO?      A greeting, also meaning R U THERE?  Often used in the
X               case of unexpected links, meaning also "Sorry if I
X               butted in" (linker) or "What's up?" (linkee).
X     FYI       For your information...
X     FYA       For your amusement...
X     GA        Go ahead (used when two people have tried to type\
X               simultaneously;
X               this cedes the right to type to the other).
X     HELLOP    A greeting, also meaning R U THERE?  (An instance of the
X               "-P" convention.)
X     JAM       Just a minute... Equivalent to SEC...
X     NIL       No (see the main entry for NIL).
X     O         Over to you (lower-case works too).
X     OO        Over and out (lower-case works too).
X     /         Another form of "Over to you" (from x/y as "x overy y")
X     OBTW      Oh, by the way...
X     R U THERE?  Are you there?
X     SEC       Wait a second (sometimes written SEC...).
X     T         Yes (see the main entry for T).
X     TNX       Thanks.
X     TNX 1.0E6 Thanks a million (humorous).
X     WTF       The universal interrogative particle.  WTF knows what
X               it means?
X     WTH       What the hell?
X     <double CRLF> When the typing party has finished, he types two CRLFs
X               to signal that he is done; this leaves a blank line between
X               individual "speeches" in the conversation, making it easier to
X               re-read the preceding text.
X     <name>:   When three or more terminals are linked, each speech is
X               preceded by the typist's login name and a colon (or a hyphen) to
X               indicate who is typing.  The login name often is shortened to a
X               unique prefix (possibly a single letter) during a very long
X               conversation.
X     /\/\/\    A giggle or chuckle (rare).  On a MUD, this almost certainly mean
X               `earthquake fault'.
X
X   Most of the above "sub-jargon" is used at both Stanford and MIT.
X   Several of these are also common in EMAIL, esp.  FYI, FYA, BTW,
X   BCNU, and CUL.  A few other abbreviations have been reported from
X   commercial networks such as GEnie and Compuserve where on-line
X   `live' chat including more than two people is common and usually
X   involves a more `social' context, notably
X
X     <g> grin
X     BBL      be back later
X     BRB      be right back
X     HHOJ     ha ha only joking
X     HHOS     <ha ha only serious>
X     LOL      laughing out loud
X     ROTF     rolling on the floor
X     ROTFL    rolling on the floor laughing
X     AFK      away from keyboard
X     b4       before
X     CU l8tr  see you later
X     MORF     Male or Female?
X     TTFN     ta-ta for now
X     OIC      Oh, I see
X     rehi     hello again
X
X   These are not used at universities or in the UNIX world;
X   conversely, most of the people who know these are unfamiliar with
X   FOO?, BCNU, HELLOP, NIL, and T.
X
X   The <MUD> community uses a mixture of USENET/Internet emoticons, a
X   few of the more natural of the old-style talk mode abbrevs, and
X   some of the `social' list above; specifically, MUD respondents
X   report use of BBL, BRB, LOL, b4, BTW, WTF, and WTH.  The use of
X   rehi is also common; in fact, mudders are fond of re- compounds and
X   will frequently `rehug' or `rebonk' (see <bonk/oif>) people.  The
X   verbe `re' by itself is construed as `repeat my last action
X   toward'.  In general, though, mudders express a preference for
X   typing things out in full rather than using abbreviations; this may
X   be due to the relative youth of the MUD cultures, which tend to
X   include many touch typists and assume high-speed links.  The
X   following uses specific to MUDs are reported:
X
X     UOK?      Are you OK?
X     THX       Thanks (mutant of TNX)
X     CU l8er   See you later (mutant of CU l8tr)
X
X   See also <hakspek>, <emoticon>, <bonk/oif>.
X
X<tanked> adj. Same as <down>, used primarily by UNIX hackers.  See
X   also <hosed>.  Popularized as a synonym for "drunk" by Steve
X   Dallas in the late lamented "Bloom County" comics.
X
X<tar and feather> [from UNIX `tar(1)'] v. To create a transportable
X   archive from a group of files by first sticking them together with
X   the tape archiver `tar(1)' and then compressing the result (see
X   <compress>). The latter is dubbed `feathering' by analogy to what
X   you do with an airplane propeller to decrease wind resistance;
X   smaller files, after all, slip through comm links more easily.
X
X<taste> n. [primarily MIT-DMS] 1. The quality in programs which tends
X   to be inversely proportional to the number of features, hacks, and
X   kluges programmed into it.  Also, "tasty", "tasteful",
X   "tastefulness".  "This feature comes in N tasty flavors."
X   Although "tasteful" and "flavorful" are essentially synonyms,
X   "taste" and <flavor> are not.  Taste refers to sound judgement on
X   the part of the creator; a program or feature can *exhibit*
X   taste but cannot "have" taste.  On the other hand, a feature can
X   have <flavor>.  Also, <flavor> has the additional meaning of
X   "kind" or "variety" not shared by "taste".  <flavor> is a
X   more popular word among hackers than "taste", though both are
X   used.  2.  Also as <tayste>; two bits.  Compare <crumb>, <dynner>,
X   <playte>, <nybble>.
X
X<TCB> /tee see bee/ [IBM] 1. Trouble Came Back.  Intermittent or
X   difficult-to reproduce problem which has failed to respond to
X   neglect.  Compare <heisenbug>.  Not to be confused with: 2. Trusted
X   Computing Base, an "official" jargon term from the <Orange Book>.
X
X<TECO> /tee'koh/ obs. 1. v. Originally, to edit using the TECO editor
X   in one of its infinite variations (see below); sometimes still used
X   to mean "to edit" even when not using TECO! Usage: rare and now
X   primarily historical.  2. [originally an acronym for (paper)
X   "Tape Editor and COrrector"; later, "Text Editor and
X   Corrector"] n. A text editor developed at MIT, and modified by
X   just about everybody.  If all the dialects are included, TECO might
X   have been the single most prolific editor in use before <EMACS>
X   to which it was directly ancestral.  Noted for its powerful
X   programming-language-like features and its incredibly hairy syntax.
X   It is literally the case that every possible sequence of ASCII
X   characters is a valid, though probably uninteresting, TECO program;
X   one common hacker game used to be mentally working out what the
X   teco commands corresponding to human names did.  As an example,
X   here is a TECO program that takes a list of names like this:
X
X     Loser, J. Random
X     Quux, The Great
X     Dick, Moby
X
X   sorts them alphabetically according to last name, and then puts the
X   last name last, removing the comma, to produce this:
X
X     Moby Dick
X     J. Random Loser
X     The Great Quux
X
X   The program is:
X
X     [1 J ^P $ L $ $
X     J <.-Z; .,(S,$ -D .)FX1 @F^B $K :L I $ G1 L>$$
X
X   (where ^B means "Control-B" (ASCII 0000010) and $ is actually an
X   <escape> (ASCII 0011011) character)
X
X   In fact, this very program was used to produce the second, sorted
X   list from the first list!  The first hack at it had a <bug>: gls
X   (the author) had accidentally omitted the "@" in front of
X   "F^B", which as anyone can see is clearly the wrong thing.  It
X   worked fine the second time.  There is no space to describe all the
X   features of TECO, but it may be of interest that "^P" means
X   "sort" and "J <.-Z; ...  L>" is an idiomatic series of commands
X   for "do once for every line".
X
X   In 1990, TECO is now pretty much one with the dust of history,
X   having been replaced in the affections of hackerdom by <EMACS>.  It
X   can still be found lurking on VMS and a couple of crufty PDP-11
X   operating systems, however.
X
X<tee> n.,v. [Purdue] A carbon copy of an electronic transmission,
X   "Oh, you're sending him the <bits> to that?  Slap on a tee for
X   me."  From the UNIX command `tee(1)'.  Can also mean `save one for
X   me' as in "Tee a slice for me!". Also spelled `T'.
X
X<Telerat> /tel'@-rat/ n. Unflattering hackerism for "Teleray", a
X   line of extremely losing terminals.  See also <terminak>,
X   <sun-stools>, <HP-SUX>.
X
X<TELNET> /telnet/ v. To communicate with another ARPAnet host using
X   the <TELNET> program.  TOPS-10 people use the word IMPCOM since
X   that is the program name for them.  Sometimes abbreviated to TN.
X   "I usually TN over to SAIL just to read the AP News."
X
X<ten finger interface> n. The interface between two networks which
X   cannot be directly connected for security reasons; refers to the
X   practice of placing two terminals side by side and having an
X   operator read from one and type into the other.
X
X<tense> adj. Of programs, very clever and efficient.  A tense piece of
X   code often got that way because it was highly <bum>med, but
X   sometimes it was just based on a great idea.  A comment in a clever
X   display routine by Mike Kazar, a student hacker at CMU: "This
X   routine is so tense it will bring tears to your eyes.  Much thanks
X   to Craig Everhart and James Gosling for inspiring this <hack
X   attack>."  A tense programmer is one who produces tense code.
X
X<tenured graduate student> n.  One who has been in graduate school for
X   ten years (the usual maximum is five or six): a "ten-yeared"
X   student (get it?).  Students don't really get tenure, of course,
X   the way professors do, but a tenth-year graduate student has
X   probably been around the university longer than any non-tenured
X   professor.
X
X<teraflop club> /ter'a-flop kluhb/ [FLOP = Floating Point Operation]
X   n.  Mythical group of people who consume outrageous amounts of
X   computer time in order to produce a few simple pictures of glass
X   balls with intricate ray tracing techniques.  Cal Tech professor
X   James Kajiya is said to have been the founding member.  See also
X   <kilo>.
X
X<terminak> /ter'mi-nak/ [Caltech, ca. 1979] n. Any malfunctioning
X   computer terminal.  A common failure mode of Lear-Siegler ADM3a
X   terminals caused the "L" key to produce the "K" code instead;
X   complaints about this tended to look like "Terminak #3 has a bad
X   keyboard.  Pkease fix."  See <sun-stools>, <Telerat>, <HP-SUX>.
X
X<terminal brain death> n. Extreme form of <terminal illness> (sense
X   #1).
X
X<terminal illness> n. 1. Syn. with <raster burn>.  2.  The `burn-in'
X   condition your CRT tends to get if you don't have a screen saver.
X
X<terminal junkie> [Great Britain] n. An early <larval stage> hacker
X   who spends most of their time wandering the directory tree and
X   writing <noddy> programs just to get his/her fix of computer time.
X   Variants include "terminal jockey", "console junkie", or <console
X   jockey>.  The term "console jockey" seems to imply more expertise
X   than the other three.
X
X<terpri> /ter'pree/ [from the LISP 1.5 (and later, MacLISP) function
X   to start a new line of output] v. To output a <CRLF>. Now
X   rare.  It is a contraction of "TERminate PRInt line".
X
X<TeX> /tekh/ n. An extremely powerful <macro>-based text-formatter
X   written by Donald E. Knuth, very popular in the computer-science
X   community (it is good enough to have displaced UNIX `troff(1)', the
X   other favored formatter, even at many UNIX installations).  TeX
X   fans insist on the correct (guttural) pronunciation spelling (all
X   caps, with the E depressed below the baseline) of the name (the
X   mixed-case "TeX" is considered an acceptable kluge on ASCII-only
X   devices).  They like to proliferate names from the word `TeX' ---
X   such as TeXnichian (TeX user), TeXhacker (TeX programmer),
X   TeXmaster (competent TeX programmer), TeXhax, TeXnique.
X
X<thanks in advance> [USENET] Conventional net.politeness ending a
X   posted request for information or assistance.  Sometimes written
X   "advTHANKSance". See <net.>, <netiquette>.
X
X<theology> n. 1. Ironically used to refer to <religious issues>.  2.
X   Technical fine points of an abstruse nature, esp. those where the
X   resolution is of theoretical interest but relatively <marginal>
X   with respect to actual use of a design or system.  Used esp. around
X   software issues with a heavy AI or language design component.
X   Example: the deep- vs. shallow-binding debate in the design of
X   dynamically-scoped LISPs.
X
X<theory> n. Used in the general sense of idea, plan, story, or set of
X   rules.  This is a generalization and abuse of the technical
X   meaning. "What's the theory on fixing this TECO loss?"  "What's
X   the theory on dinner tonight?"  ("Chinatown, I guess.")
X   "What's the current theory on letting lusers on during the day?"
X   "The theory behind this change is to fix the following well-known
X   screw..."
X
X<thinko> /thin'ko/ [by analogy with `typo'] n. A bubble in the stream
X   of consciousness; a momentary, correctable glitch in mental
X   processing, especially one involving recall of information learned
X   by rote.  Syn. <braino>.  Compare <mouso>.
X
X<This time, for sure>!  Ritual affirmation frequently uttered during
X   protracted debugging sessions involving numerous small obstacles
X   (as, in for example, attempts to bring up a UUCP connection). For
X   the proper effect, this must be uttered in a fruity imitation of
X   Bullwinkle the Moose.  Also heard: "Hey, Rocky! Watch me pull a
X   rabbit out of my hat!".  The canonical response is, of course,
X   "But that trick *never* works!". See <HUMOR, HACKER>.
X
X<thrash> v. To move wildly or violently, without accomplishing
X   anything useful.  Paging or swapping systems which are overloaded
X   waste most of their time moving data into and out of core (rather
X   than performing useful computation), and are therefore said to
X   thrash.  Someone who keeps changing his mind is said to be
X   thrashing.
X
X<thread> /thred/ n. [USENET, GEnie] Common abbreviation of `topic
X   thread', a more or less continuous chain of postings on a single
X   topic.  Also in 2. <upthread>: earlier in the discussion. "As Joe
X   pointed out upthread..."
X
X<three-finger salute> n. Syn. for <vulcan nerve pinch>.
X
X<thunk> [mythically, the sound made by data when pushed onto the
X   stack] n. 1. " ... a piece of coding which which provides an
X   address." --- P.Z Ingerman, who invented <thunk>s in 1961 as a way
X   of binding actual parameters to their formal definitions in
X   Algol-60 procedure calls.  If a procedure is called with an
X   expression in the place of a formal parameter, the compiler
X   generates a <thunk> to compute the expression and leave the address
X   of the result in some standard location such as an index register.
X   2. Later generalized into an expression, frozen together with its
X   environment for later evaluation if and when needed.  The process
X   of unfreezing these <thunk>s is called `forcing'.  3. Stub routine,
X   in an overlay programming environment, which loads and jumps to the
X   correct overlay.  4. People and activities scheduled in a thunklike
X   manner.  "It occurred to me the other day that I am rather
X   accurately modelled by a thunk --- I frequently need to be forced
X   to completion."  --- paraphrased from a .plan file.
X
X<tick> n. 1. The width of one tick of the system clock on the
X   computer.  Often 1 AC cycle time (1/60 second in the U.S. and
X   Canada, and 1/50 most other places) but more recently 1/100 sec has
X   become common.  Syn <jiffy>.  2. In simulations, the discrete unit
X   of time that passes "between" iterations of the simulation
X   mechanism.  In AI applications, this amount of time is often left
X   unspecified, since the only constraint of interest is that caused
X   things happen after their causes.  This sort of AI simulation is
X   often pejoratively referred to as "tick-tick-tick" simulation,
X   especially when the issue of simultaneity of events with long,
X   independent chains of causes is <handwave>d.
X
X<tick-list features> [Acorn Computers] n. Features in software or
X   hardware that customers insist on but never use (calculators in
X   desktop TSRs and that sort of thing).
X
X<time sink> n. A project which consumes unbounded amounts of time.
X
X<time t> /tiem tee/ n. 1. An unspecified but usually well-understood
X   time, often used in conjunction with a later time T+1.  "We'll
X   meet on campus at time T or at Louie's at time T+1." means, in the
X   context of going out for dinner, "If we meet at Louie's directly,
X   we can meet there a little later than if we meet on campus and then
X   have to travel to Louie's."  (Louie's is a Chinese restaurant in
X   Palo Alto that is a favorite with hackers.  Had the number 30 been
X   used instead of "one", it would have implied that the travel time
X   from campus to Louie's is thirty minutes; whatever time T is (and
X   that hasn't been decided on yet), you can meet half an hour later
X   at Louie's than you could on campus and end up eating at the same
X   time.  2. "since (or at) time t equals minus infinity": A long time
X   ago; for as long as anyone can remember; at the time that some
X   particular frob was first designed.  Sometimes the word "time" is
X   omitted if there is no danger of confusing "T" as a time with
X   "T" meaning "yes".
X
X<tip of the ice-cube> [IBM] n. The visible part of something small and
X   insignificant.  Used as an ironic comment in situations where "tip
X   of the iceberg" might be appropriate if the subject were actually
X   nontrivial.
X
X<tired iron> [IBM] n. Hardware that is perfectly functional but enough
X   behind the state of the art to have been superseded by new
X   products, presumably with enough improvement in bang-per-buck that
X   the old stuff is starting to look a bit like a <dinosaur>.
X
X<tits on a keyboard> n. Small bumps on certain keycaps to keep
X   touch-typists registered.  (Usually on the 5 of a numeric keypad,
X   and on F and J of a QWERTY keyboard.)
X
X<TLA> /tee el ay/ [Three-Letter-Acronym] n. 1. Self-describing acronym
X   for a species with which computing terminology is infested.  2. Any
X   confusing acronym at all.  Examples include MCA, FTP, SNA, CPU,
X   MMU, SCCS, DMU, FPU, TLA, NNTP.  People who like this looser usage
X   argue that not all TLAs have three letters, just as not all four
X   letter words have four letters.  One also hears of "ETLA"
X   (Extended Three Letter Acronym, pronounced /ee tee el ay/ ) being
X   used to describe four-letter acronyms.
X
X<toast> 1. n. Any completely inoperable system, esp. one that has just
X   crashed; "I think BUACCA is toast." 2. v. To cause a system to
X   crash accidentally, especially in a manner that requires manual
X   rebooting. "Rick just toasted harp again."
X
X<toaster> n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an
X   embedded microprocessor controller esp. `toaster oven'; often used
X   in comments which imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology.
X   "<DWIM> for an assembler?  That'd be as silly as running UNIX on
X   your toaster!" 2.  A very very dumb computer. "You could run this
X   program on any dumb toaster."  See <bitty box>, <toaster>, <toy>.
X
X<toggle> v. To change a BIT from whatever state it is in to the other
X   state; to change from 1 to 0 or from 0 to 1.  This probably comes
X   from "toggle switches", such as standard light switches, though
X   the word "toggle" apparently originally referred to the mechanism
X   that keeps the switch in the position to which it is flipped,
X   rather than to the fact that the switch has two positions.  There
X   are four things you can do to a bit: set it (force it to be 1),
X   clear (or zero) it, leave it alone, or toggle it.  (Mathematically,
X   one would say that there are four distinct boolean-valued functions
X   of one boolean argument, but saying that is much less fun than
X   talking about toggling bits.)
X
X<tool> 1. n. A program primarily used to create other programs, such
X   as a compiler or editor or cross-referencing program.  Oppose
X   <app>, <operating system>. 2. [UNIX] An application program with a
X   simple, "transparent" (typically text-stream) interface designed
X   specifically to be used in programmed combination with other tools
X   (see <filter>).  3. [MIT] v.i. To work; to study.  See <hack>.
X
X<TOPS-10> /tops-ten/ n. DEC's proprietary OS for the fabled <PDP-10>
X   machines, long a favorite of hackers but now effectively extinct.
X   A fountain of hacker folklore; see Appendix A. See also <ITS>,
X   <TOPS-20>, <TWENEX>, <VMS>, <operating system>.  TOPS-10 was
X   sometimes called BOTS-10 ("from bottoms-ten") as a comment on the
X   inappropriateness of describing it as the top of anything.
X
X<TOPS-20> /tops-twen'tee/ n. See <TWENEX>.
X
X<tourist> [from MIT's ITS system] n. A guest on the system, especially
X   one who generally logs in over a network from a remote location for
X   games and other trivial purposes.  One step below <luser>.
X
X<touristic> adj. Having the quality of a <tourist>.  Often used as a
X   pejorative, as in "losing touristic scum".
X
X<toy> n. A computer system; always used with qualifiers.  1. <nice
X   toy>: One which supports the speaker's hacking style adequately.
X   2.  <just a toy>: A machine that yields insufficient <computron>s
X   for the speaker's preferred uses.  This is not condemnatory as is
X   <bitty box>; toys can at least be fun.  See also <Get a real
X   computer!>, <bitty box>.
X
X<toy problem> [AI] n. A deliberately simplified or even oversimplified
X   case of a challenging problem used to investigate, prototype, or
X   test algorithms for the real problem.  Sometimes used pejoratively.
X   See also <gedanken>.
X
X<trap> 1. n. A program interrupt, usually used specifically to refer
X   to an interrupt caused by some illegal action taking place in the
X   user program.  In most cases the system monitor performs some
X   action related to the nature of the illegality, then returns
X   control to the program.  2. v. To cause a trap.  "These
X   instructions trap to the monitor."  Also used transitively to
X   indicate the cause of the trap.  "The monitor traps all
X   input/output instructions."  This term is associated with
X   assembler programming (INTERRUPT is more common among HLL
X   programmers) and appears to be fading into history as the role of
X   assembler continues to shrink.
X
X<trap door> alt. <trapdoor> n. Syn. with <back door>.
X
X<trash> v. To destroy the contents of (said of a data structure). The
X   most common of the family of near-synonyms including <mung>,
X   <mangle> and <scribble>.
X
X<tree killer> [Sun] n. 1. A printer.  2. A person who wastes paper.
X   This should be interpreted in a broad sense; `wasting paper'
X   includes the production of <spiffy> but <content-free> documents.
X   Thus, most <suits> are tree-killers.
X
X<trivial> adj. 1. In explanation, too simple to bother detailing. 2.
X   Not worth the speaker's time. 3. Complex, but solvable by methods
X   so well-known that anyone not utterly <cretinous> would have
X   thought of them already.  Hackers' notions of triviality may be
X   quite at variance with those of non-hackers.  See <nontrivial>,
X   <uninteresting>.
X
X<troglodyte> [Commodore] n. 1. A hacker who never leaves his cubicle.
X   The term `Gnoll' (from D&D) is also reported.  2. [proposed] A
X   curmudgeon attached to an obsolescent computing environment.
X
X<troglodyte mode> [Rice University] n. Programming with the lights
X   turned off, sunglasses on, and the (character) terminal inverted
X   (black on white) because you've been up for so many days straight
X   that your eyes hurt.  Loud music blaring from a stereo stacked in
X   the corner is optional but recommended.  See <larval stage>,
X   <mode>.
X
X<trojan horse> [coined by MIT-hacker-turned-spook Dan Edwards] n. A
X   program designed to break security or damage a system that is
X   disguised as something else benign, such as a directory lister or
X   archiver.  See <virus>, <worm>.
X
X<true-hacker> [analogy with "trufan" from SF fandom] n.  One who
X   exemplifies the primary values of hacker culture, esp.  competence
X   and helpfulness to other hackers.  A high complement.  "He spent
X   six hours helping me bring up UUCP and netnews on my FOOBAR 4000
X   last week --- unequivocally the act of a true-hacker."  Compare
X   <demigod>, oppose <munchkin>.
X
X<tty> /tee-tee-wie/ [UNIX], /ti'tee/ [ITS, but some UNIX people say it
X   this way as well] n. 1. Terminal of the teletype variety,
X   characterized by a noisy mechanical printer, a very limited
X   character set, and poor print quality.  Usage: antiquated (like the
X   TTYs themselves).  2.  [especially UNIX] Any terminal at all;
X   sometimes used to refer to the particular terminal controlling a
X   given job.
X
X<tube> n. A CRT terminal.  Never used in the mainstream sense of TV;
X   real hackers don't watch TV, except for Loony Toons and Rocky &
X   Bullwinkle and the occasional cheesy old swashbuckle movie.
X
X<tunafish> n. In hackish lore, refers to the mutated punchline of an
X   age-old joke to be found at the bottom of the man pages of
X   `tunefs(8)' in the original <BSD> 4.2 distribution.  The joke
X   was removed in later releases once commercial sites started
X   developing 4.2. Tunefs relates to the `tuning' of file-system
X   parameters for optimum performance, and at the bottom of a few
X   pages of <black art> writings was a BUGS section consisting of the
X   line "You can tune a filing system, but you can't tunafish."
X
X<tune> [from automotive or musical usage] v. To optimize a program or
X   system for a particular environment, esp. by adjusting numerical
X   parameters designed as <hook>s for tuning, e.g. by changing #define
X   lines in C.  One may `tune for time' (fastest execution) `tune for
X   space' (least memory utilization) or `tune for configuration' (most
X   efficient use of hardware). See <bum>, <hot spot>, <hand-hacking>.
X
X<tweak> v. 1. To change slightly, usually in reference to a value.
X   Also used synonymously with <twiddle>.  If a program is almost
X   correct, rather than figuring out the precise problem, you might
X   just keep tweaking it until it works.  See <frobnicate> and <fudge
X   factor>.  2. To <tune> or <bum> a program.  This is preferred usage
X   in England.
X
X<TWENEX> /twe-neks/ n. The TOPS-20 operating system by DEC.  TOPS-10
X   was a typically crufty DEC operating system for the PDP-10, so
X   TOPS-20 was the obvious name choice for the DEC-20 OS. Bolt,
X   Beranek and Newman (BBN) had developed their own system, called
X   <TENEX> (TEN EXecutive), and in creating TOPS-20 DEC copied TENEX
X   and adapted it for the 20. The term TWENEX was therefore a
X   contraction of "twenty TENEX".  DEC people cringed when they
X   heard TOPS-20 referred to as "TWENEX", but the term caught on
X   nevertheless.  The written abbreviation "20x" was also used.
X   TWENEX was successful and very popular; in fact, there was a period
X   in the 1980s when it commanded almost as fervent a culture of
X   partisans as UNIX or ITS --- but DEC's decision to scrap all the
X   internal rivals to the VAX architecture and the relatively stodgy
X   VMS OS killed the DEC-20 and put a sad end to TWENEX's brief day in
X   the sun.
X
X<twiddle> n. 1. tilde (ASCII 176, "~").  Also called "squiggle",
X   "sqiggle" (sic---pronounced "skig'gul"), and "twaddle", but
X   twiddle is by far the most common term.  2. A small and
X   insignificant change to a program.  Usually fixes one bug and
X   generates several new ones.  3. v. To change something in a small
X   way.  Bits, for example, are often twiddled.  Twiddling a switch or
X   knob implies much less sense of purpose than toggling or tweaking
X   it; see <frobnicate>.  To speak of twiddling a bit connotes
X   aimlessness, and at best doesn't specify what you're doing to the
X   bit; by contrast, toggling a bit has a more specific meaning (see
X   <toggle>).
X
X<twink> /twink/ [UCSC] n. Equivalent to <read-only user>.
X
X<two-to-the-n> q.  Used like N, but referring to bigger numbers. "I
X   have two to the N things to do before I can go out for lunch"
X   means you probably won't show up.
X
X<two-pi> q. The number of years it takes to finish one's thesis.
X   Occurs in stories in the form: "He started on his thesis; two pi
X   years later...".
X
X<twonkie> n. The software equivalent of a Twinkie; a useless
X   "feature" added to look sexy and placate a <marketroid>.
X
X                                {= U =}
X
X<UBD> [abbreviation for "User Brain Damage"] An abbreviation used to
X   close out trouble reports obviously due to utter cluelessness on
X   the user's part.  Compare <PBD>; see also <brain-damaged>.
X
X<undefined external reference> excl. [UNIX] Message from UNIX's
X   linker.  Used to indicate loose ends in an argument or discussion.
X
X<under the hood> prep. [hot-rodder talk] 1. Used to introduce the
X   underlying implementation of a product (hardware, software, or
X   idea). Implies that the implementation is not intuitively obvious
X   from the appearance, but the speaker is about enable the listener
X   to <zen> it. "Let's now look under the hood to see how ..."  2.
SHAR_EOF
chmod 0644 jsplit.ai || echo "restore of jsplit.ai fails"
if [ $TOUCH = can ]
then
    touch -am 0103154591 jsplit.ai
fi
exit 0