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• zip vt. [primarily MS-DOS] 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....
• ar and feather: [from UNIX `tar(1)'] vt. To create a transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking them together with `tar(1)' (the Tape ARchiver) and then compressing the result (see {compress}).
  The latter action is dubbed `feathering' partly for euphony and (if only for contrived effect) by analogy to what you do with an airplane propeller to decrease wind resistance, or with an oar to reduce water resistance...
• ar and feather vi. [from Unix tar(1)] To create a transportable archive from a group of files by first sticking them together with tar(1) (the Tape ARchiver) and then compressing the result (see compress).
  The latter action is dubbed `feathering' partly for euphony and (if only for contrived effect) by analogy to what you do with an airplane propeller to decrease wind resistance, or with an oar to reduce water resistance...
• pool: [from early IBM `Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line', but this acronym is widely thought to have been contrived for effect] vt.
  To send files to some device or program (a `spooler') that queues them up and does something useful with them later....
• bug-compatible: adj. Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised by a requirement to be compatible with {fossil}s or {misfeature}s in other programs or (esp.
  ) previous releases of itself. "MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option character in 1....
• 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....
• foreground: [UNIX] vt. To bring a task to the top of one's {stack} for immediate processing, and hackers often use it in this sense for non-computer tasks.
  If your presentation is due next week, I guess I'd better foreground writing up the design document....
• inflate vt. To decompress or puff a file. Rare among Internet hackers, used primarily by MS-DOS/Windows types.
• GFR: /G-F-R/ vt. [ITS: from `Grim File Reaper', an ITS and LISP Machine utility] To remove a file or files according to some program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure
  especially one designed to reclaim mass storage space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR actually moved files to tape)....