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• pool file: n. Any file to which data is {spool}ed to await the next stage of processing.
  Especially used in circumstances where spooling the data copes with a mismatch between speeds in two devices or pieces of software....
• magic number n. [Unix/C; common] 1. In source code
  some non-obvious constant whose value is significant to the operation of a program and that is inserted inconspicuously in-line (hardcoded), rather than expanded in by a symbol set by a commented #define....
• cat: [from `catenate' via {{UNIX}} `cat(1)'] vt. 1.
  [techspeak] To spew an entire file to the screen or some other output sink without pause....
• cat [from `catenate' via Unix cat(1)] vt. 1. [techspeak] To spew an entire file to the screen or some other output sink without pause.
  2. By extension, to dump large amounts of data at an unprepared target or with no intention of browsing it carefully....
• aw mode: n. A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device (o
  under {bogus} systems that make a distinction, a disk file) without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system....
• daemon /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ n. [from the mythological meaning
  later rationalized as the acronym `Disk And Execution MONitor'] A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur....
• aw mode n. A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device (o
  under bogus operating systems that make a distinction, a disk file) without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system....
• hole n. A region in an otherwise flat entity which is not actually present.
  For example, some Unix filesystems can store large files with holes so that unused regions of the file are never actually stored on disk....
• daemon: /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ [from the mythological meaning, later rationalized as the acronym `Disk And Execution MONitor'] n.
  A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur....