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• orphaned i-node /or'f*nd i:'nohd/ n. [Unix] 1.
  [techspeak] A file that retains storage but no longer appears in the directories of a filesystem....
• EOF: /E-O-F/ [abbreviation, `End Of File'] n. 1. [techspeak] The {out-of-band} value returned by C's sequential character-input functions (and their equivalents in other environments) when end of file has been reached.
  This value is -1 under C libraries postdating V6 UNIX, but was originally 0....
• aw mode: n. A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device (o
  under {bogus} systems that make a distinction, a disk file) without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system....
• overrun: n. 1. [techspeak] Term for a frequent consequence of data arriving faster than it can be consumed, esp.
  in serial line communications. For example, at 9600 baud there is almost exactly one character per millisecond, so if a {silo} can hold only two characters and the machine takes longer than 2 msec to get to service the interrupt, at least one character will be lost....
• deep space: n. 1. Describes the notional location of any program that has gone {off the trolley}.
  Esp. used of programs that just sit there silently grinding long after either failure or some output is expected....
• 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....
• oot: [UNIX] n. 1. The {superuser} account (with user name `root') that ignores permission bits, user number 0 on a UNIX system.
  The term {avatar} is also used. 2. The top node of the system directory structure (home directory of the root user)....
• oaster: n. 1. The archetypal really stupid application for an embedded microprocessor controlle
  often used in comments that imply that a scheme is inappropriate technology (but see {elevator controller})....
• core dump: n. [common {Iron Age} jargon, preserved by UNIX] 1.
  [techspeak] A copy of the contents of {core}, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error....