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• unes pl.n. 1. Anything that requires heavy wizardry or black art to parse
  core dumps, JCL commands, APL, or code in a language you haven't a clue how to read....
• frogging: [University of Waterloo] v. 1. Partial corruption of a text file or input stream by some bug or consistent glitch, as opposed to random events like line noise or media failures.
  Might occur, for example, if one bit of each incoming character on a tty were stuck, so that some characters were correct and others were not....
• examining the entrails: n. The process of {grovel}ling through a {core dump} or hex image in an attempt to discover the bug that brought a program or system down.
  The reference is to divination from the entrails of a sacrified animal....
• frogging [University of Waterloo] v. 1. Partial corruption of a text file or input stream by some bug or consistent glitch, as opposed to random events like line noise or media failures.
  Might occur, for example, if one bit of each incoming character on a tty were stuck, so that some characters were correct and others were not....
• casting the runes: n. What a {guru} does when you ask him or her to run a particular program and type at it because it never works for anyone else
  esp. used when nobody can ever see what the guru is doing different from what J....
• dump: n. 1. An undigested and voluminous mass of information about a problem or the state of a system
  especially one routed to the slowest available output device (compare {core dump}), and most especially one consisting of hex or octal {runes} describing the byte-by-byte state of memory, mass storage, or some file....
• examining the entrails n. The process of grovelling through a core dump or hex image in an attempt to discover the bug that brought a program or system down.
  The reference is to divination from the entrails of a sacrified animal....
• heavy wizardry: n. Code or designs that trade on a particularly intimate knowledge or experience of a particular operating system or language or complex application interface.
  Distinguished from {deep magic}, which trades more on arcane *theoretical* knowledge....
• 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....