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• 2: infix. In translation software written by hackers, infix 2 often represents the syllable *to* with the connotation `translate to'
  as in dvi2ps (DVI to PostScript), int2string (integer to string), and texi2roff (Texinfo to [nt]roff)....
• MUD /muhd/ n. [acronym, Multi-User Dungeon; alt.
  Multi-User Dimension] 1. A class of virtual reality experiments accessible via the Internet....
• unafish: n. In hackish lore, refers to the mutated punchline of an age-old joke to be found at the bottom of the manual pages of `tunefs(8)' in the original {BSD} 4.
  2 distribution. The joke was removed in later releases once commercial sites started using 4....
• widdle: n. 1. Tilde (ASCII 1111110, `~'). Also called `squiggle', `sqiggle' (sic --- pronounced /skig'l/), and `twaddle', but twiddle is the most common term.
  2. A small and insignificant change to a program....
• line eater, the: [USENET] n. 1. A bug in some now-obsolete versions of the netnews software that used to eat up to BUFSIZ bytes of the article text.
  The bug was triggered by having the text of the article start with a space or tab....
• he network n. 1. Historicaslly, the union of all the major noncommercial
  academic, and hacker-oriented networks, such as Internet, the pre-1990 ARPANET, NSFnet, BITNET, and the virtual UUCP and Usenet `networks', plus the corporate in-house networks and commercial time-sharing services (such as CompuServe, GEnie and AOL) that gateway to them....
• NeWS: /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ [acronym
  he `Network Window System'] n. The road not taken in window systems, an elegant {{PostScript}}-based environment that would almost certainly have won the standards war with {X} if it hadn't been {proprietary} to Sun Microsystems....
• h: [from SF fandom] infix. A method of `marking' common words, i.
  e., calling attention to the fact that they are being used in a nonstandard, ironic, or humorous way....
• NeWS /nee'wis/, /n[y]oo'is/ or /n[y]ooz/ n. [acronym
  the `Network Window System'] The road not taken in window systems, an elegant PostScript-based environment that would almost certainly have won the standards war with X if it hadn't been proprietary to Sun Microsystems....