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• off /N'rof/ n. [Unix, from "new roff" (see troff)] A companion program to the Unix typesetter troff, accepting identical input but preparing output for terminals and line printers.
• off /T'rof/ or /trof/ n. [Unix] The gray eminence of Unix text processing
  a formatting and phototypesetting program, written originally in PDP-11 assembler and then in barely-structured early C by the late Joseph Ossanna, modeled after the earlier ROFF which was in turn modeled after the Multics and CTSS program RUNOFF by Jerome Saltzer (that name came from the expression "to run off a copy")....
• line starve: [MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this).
  On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen....
• ponge: [UNIX] n. A special case of a {filter} that reads its entire input before writing any outpu
  he canonical example is a sort utility. Unlike most filters, a sponge can conveniently overwrite the input file with the output data stream....
• grind: vt. 1. [MIT and Berkeley] To prettify hardcopy of code, especially LISP code, by reindenting lines, printing keywords and comments in distinct fonts (if available), etc.
  This usage was associated with the MacLISP community and is now rare...
• filter: [orig. {{UNIX}}, now also in {{MS-DOS}}] n.
  A program that processes an input data stream into an output data stream in some well-defined way, and does no I/O to anywhere else except possibly on error conditio...
• plumbing: [UNIX] n. Term used for {shell} code, so called because of the prevalence of `pipelines' that feed the output of one program to the input of another.
  Under UNIX, user utilities can often be implemented or at least prototyped by a suitable collection of pipelines and temp-file grinding encapsulated in a shell scrip...
• CrApTeX: /krap'tekh/ [University of York, England] n.
  Term of abuse used to describe TeX and LaTeX when they don't work (when used by TeXhackers), or all the time (by everyone else)....
• line starve [MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this).
  On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen....