:amp off: [Purdue] vt. To run in {background}. From the UNIX shell `&'
operator.
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operator.
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- amp off vt.
[Purdue] To run in background.
From the Unix shell `&' operator... - background: n.,adj.,vt. To do a task `in background' is to do
it whenever {foreground} matters are not claiming your undivided
attention,
and `to background' something means to relegate it... - tee: n.,vt. [Purdue] A carbon copy of an electronic transmission.
"Oh, you're sending him the {bits} to that? Slap on... - vaxherd: n. /vaks'herd/ [from `oxherd'] A VAX operator.
The AI Hackers... - shell out: [UNIX] n. To spawn an interactive subshell from within
a program (e.g.
a mailer or editor). "Bang foo runs foo in a subshell... - exec: /eg-zek'/ vt., n. 1. [UNIX: from `execute'] Synonym for
{chain},
derives from the `exec(2)' call. 2. [from `executive']... - foreground: [UNIX] vt. To bring a task to the top of one's
{stack} for immediate processing,
and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer... - background n.,adj.,vt.
[common] To do a task `in
background' is to do it whenever foreground matters are not
claiming your undivided attention,
and `to background' something means to relegate... - can: vt. To abort a job on a time-sharing system. Used esp.
when the person doing the deed is an operator, as in...
From the same category:
- Indiana Jones' Adventures:
Darrin... - Swimming is too much like...bathing.
-- Worf, "Conspiracy",
stardate 41775... - Ruin, v. To destroy. Specifically, to destroy a maid's belief in the
virtue of maids.
Ambrose Bierce "The Devil's... - It's lucky you're going so slowly,
because you're going in the wrong direction... - T is fortune gives us birth,
But Jove alone endues the soul with worth.
Alexander Pope (1688-1744) -- The Iliad of Homer,...
