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• dd /dee-dee/ vt. [Unix: from IBM JCL] Equivalent to cat or BLT.
  Originally the name of a Unix copy command with special options suitable for block-oriented device...
• 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....
• wab: /swob/ [From the mnemonic for the PDP-11 `SWAp Byte' instruction, as immortalized in the `dd(1)' option `conv=swab' (see {dd})] 1.
  vt. To solve the {NUXI problem} by swapping bytes in a file....
• boot v.,n. [techspeak; from `by one's bootstraps'] To load and initialize the operating system on a machine.
  This usage is no longer jargon (having passed into techspeak) but has given rise to some derivatives that are still jargon....
• flush v. 1. [common] To delete something, usually superfluous, or to abort an operation.
  All that nonsense has been flushed." 2. [Unix/C] To force buffered I/O to disk, as with an fflush(3) call....
• flush: v. 1. To delete something, usually superfluous, or to abort an operation.
  All that nonsense has been flushed." 2. [UNIX/C] To force buffered I/O to disk, as with an `fflush(3)' call....
• blit /blit/ vt. 1. [common] To copy a large array of bits from one part of a computer's memory to another pa
  particularly when the memory is being used to determine what is shown on a display screen....
• JCL /J-C-L/ n. 1. IBM's supremely rude Job Control Language.
  JCL is the script language used to control the execution of programs in IBM's batch systems....