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• mash case vi. To lose or obliterate the uppercase/lowercase distinction in text input.
  MS-DOS will automatically smash case in the names of all the files you create....
• Great Runes n. Uppercase-only text or display messages.
  Some archaic operating systems still emit these....
• fold case v. See smash case. This term tends to be used more by people who don't mind that their tools smash case.
  It also connotes that case is ignored but case distinctions in data processed by the tool in question aren't destroyed....
• blurgle: /bler'gl/ [Great Britain] n. Spoken {metasyntactic variable}, to indicate some text that is obvious from context, or which is already known.
  If several words are to be replaced, blurgle may well be doubled or trebled....
• egv: /seg'vee/ n.,vi. Yet another synonym for {segmentation fault} (actually, in this case, `segmentation violation').
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• zip: [primarily MS-DOS] vt. To create a compressed archive from a group of files using PKWare's PKZIP or a compatible archiver.
  Its use is spreading now that portable implementations of the algorithm have been written....
• 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....
• MS-DOS:: /M-S-dos/ [MicroSoft Disk Operating System] n.
  A {clone} of {{CP/M}} for the 8088 crufted together in 6 weeks by hacker Tim Paterson, who is said to have regretted it ever since....
• pecial-case: vt. To write unique code to handle input to or situations arising in a program that are somehow distinguished from normal processing.
  This would be used for processing of mode switches or interrupt characters in an interactive interface (as opposed, say, to text entry or normal commands), or for processing of {hidden flag}s in the input of a batch program or {filter}....