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• bits pl.n. 1. Information. Examples: "I need some bits about file formats.
  ("I need to know about file formats.") Compare core dump, sense 4....
• core dump n. [common Iron Age jargon, preserved by Unix] 1.
  [techspeak] A copy of the contents of core, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error....
• core dump: n. [common {Iron Age} jargon, preserved by UNIX] 1.
  [techspeak] A copy of the contents of {core}, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error....
• dump: n. 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system
  especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare {core dump}), and most especially one consisting of hex or octal {runes} describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file....
• dump n. 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system
  especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare core dump), and most especially one consisting of hex or octal runes describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file....
• 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....
• 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....
• oftcopy /soft'kop-ee/ n. [by analogy with `hardcopy'] A machine-readable form of corresponding hardcopy.
  See bits, machinable....
• green bytes: n. (also `green words') 1. Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name
  as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record....