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).
Several versions of a joke have floated around the internet in
which some idiot programmer fixes the Y2K bug by changing all the
Y's in something to K's, as in Januark, Februark, etc.
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).
Several versions of a joke have floated around the internet in
which some idiot programmer fixes the Y2K bug by changing all the
Y's in something to K's, as in Januark, Februark, etc.
Related:
- 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....
