: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. 2. [UNIX] The
keyboard character (usually control-D, the ASCII EOT (End Of
Transmission) character) that is mapped by the terminal driver into
an end-of-file condition. 3. Used by extension in non-computer
contexts when a human is doing something that can be modeled as a
sequential read and can't go further. "Yeah, I looked for a list
of 360 mnemonics to post as a joke, but I hit EOF pretty fast; all
the library had was a {JCL} manual." See also
{EOL}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
{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. 2. [UNIX] The
keyboard character (usually control-D, the ASCII EOT (End Of
Transmission) character) that is mapped by the terminal driver into
an end-of-file condition. 3. Used by extension in non-computer
contexts when a human is doing something that can be modeled as a
sequential read and can't go further. "Yeah, I looked for a list
of 360 mnemonics to post as a joke, but I hit EOF pretty fast; all
the library had was a {JCL} manual." See also
{EOL}.
-- The AI Hackers Dictionary
Related:
- EOF /E-O-F/ n.
[abbreviation, `End Of File']
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.... - fence: n. 1. A sequence of one or more distinguished
({out-of-band}) characters (or other data items)
used to delimit a piece of data intended to be treated as a unit (the computer-science literature calls this a `sentinel').... - fence n. 1.
A sequence of one or more distinguished
(out-of-band) characters (or other data items)
used to delimit a piece of data intended to be treated as a unit (the computer-science literature calls this a `sentinel').... - EOL: /E-O-L/ [End Of Line] n. Syn. for {newline}, derived
perhaps from the original CDC6600 Pascal.
Now rare, but widely recognized and occasionally used for brevity.... - ANSI /an'see/
1. n. [techspeak] The American National
Standards Institute.
ANSI, along with the International Organization for Standards (ISO), standardized the C programming language (see K&... - 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.... - bit-paired keyboard n.,obs.
(alt. `bit-shift
keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have
originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several
years on early computer equipment.
The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage.... - egexp: /reg'eksp/ [UNIX] n. (alt. `regex' or `reg-ex')
1.
Common written and spoken abbreviation for `regular expression', one of the wildcard patterns used, e.... - ewline: /n[y]oo'li:n/ n. 1. [techspeak, primarily UNIX] The
ASCII LF character (0001010), used under {{UNIX}} as a text line
terminator.
A Bell-Labs-ism rather than a Berkeleyism; interestingly (and unusually for UNIX jargon), it is said to have originally been an IBM usage....
