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• fortune cookie n. [WAITS, via Unix; common] A random quote, item of trivia, joke, or maxim printed to the user's tty at login time or (less commonly) at logout time.
  Items from this lexicon have often been used as fortune cookies. See cookie file....
• cookie file: n. A collection of {fortune cookie}s in a format that facilitates retrieval by a fortune program.
  There are several different cookie files in public distribution, and site admins often assemble their own from various sources including this lexicon....
• cookie file n. A collection of fortune cookies in a format that facilitates retrieval by a fortune program.
  There are several different cookie files in public distribution, and site admins often assemble their own from various sources including this lexicon....
• finger: [WAITS, via BSD UNIX] 1. n. A program that displays information about a particular user or all users logged on the system, or a remote system.
  Typically shows full name, last login time, idle time, terminal line, and terminal location (where applicable)....
• c file: /R-C fi:l/ [UNIX: from the startup script `/etc/rc', but this is commonly believed to have been named after older scripts to `run commands'] n.
  Script file containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up....
• cookie: n. A handle, transaction ID, or other token of agreement between cooperating programs.
  I give him a packet, he gives me back a cookie....
• glitch: /glich/ [from German `glitschen' to slip, via Yiddish `glitshen', to slide or skid] 1.
  . A sudden interruption in electric service, sanity, continuity, or program function....
• cookie monster: [from the children's TV program "Sesame Street"] n.
  Any of a family of early (1970s) hacks reported on {{TOPS-10}}, {{ITS}}, {{Multics}}, and elsewhere that would lock up either the victim's terminal (on a time-sharing machine) or the {{console}} (on a batch {mainframe}), repeatedly demanding "I WANT A COOKIE"....
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