Related:

• file signature n. A magic number, sense 3.
• black magic: n. A technique that works, though nobody really understands why.
  More obscure than {voodoo programming}, which may be done by cookbook....
• plash screen: [Mac] n. Syn. {banner}, sense 3. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• poo: n. Variant of {spooge}, sense 1. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary
• ync: /sink/ (var. `synch') n., vi. 1. To synchronize, to bring into synchronization.
  2. [techspeak] To force all pending I/O to the disk...
• eaper: n. A {prowler} that {GFR}s files. A file removed in this way is said to have been `reaped'.
  -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• File Attach: [FidoNet] 1. n. A file sent along with a mail message from one BBS to another.
  2. vt. Sending someone a file by using the File Attach option in a BBS mailer....
• cookie jar: n. An area of memory set aside for storing {cookie}s.
  Most commonly heard in the Atari ST community; many useful ST programs record their presence by storing a distinctive {magic number} in the jar....
• program: n. 1. A magic spell cast over a computer allowing it to turn one's input into error messages.
  2. An exercise in experimental epistemology. 3....