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• awl v. To sift through large volumes of data (e.
  g., Usenet postings, FTP archives, or the Jargon File) looking for something of interest....
• grep: /grep/ [from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p
  where re stands for a regular expression, to Globally search for the Regular Expression and Print the lines containing matches to it, via {{UNIX}} `grep(1)'] vt....
• mouse around: vi. To explore public portions of a large system, esp.
  a network such as Internet via {FTP} or {TELNET}, looking for interesting stuff to {snarf}....
• YKYBHTLW: // Abbreviation of `You know you've been hacking too long when.
  ..', which became established on the USENET group alt....
• disclaimer: n. [USENET] n. Statement ritually appended to many USENET postings (sometimes automatically
  by the posting software) reiterating the fact (which should be obvious, but is easily forgotten) that the article reflects its author's opinions and not necessarily those of the organization running the machine through which the article entered the network....
• chain: 1. [orig. from BASIC's `CHAIN' statement] vi.
  To hand off execution to a child or successor without going through the {OS} command interpreter that invoked it....
• despew: /d*-spyoo'/ [USENET] v. To automatically generate a large amount of garbage to the net, esp.
  from an automated posting program gone wild. See {ARMM}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• pseudo: /soo'doh/ [USENET: truncation of `pseudonym'] n.
  1. An electronic-mail or {USENET} persona adopted by a human for amusement value or as a means of avoiding negative repercussions of one's net....
• chase pointers: 1. vi. To go through multiple levels of indirection, as in traversing a linked list or graph structure.
  Used esp. by programmers in C, where explicit pointers are a very common data type....