eric@snark.thyrsus.com (Eric S. Raymond) (03/23/91)
The Jargon File 2.8.1, 22 MAR 1991 has been released for review. You can snarf it via FTP from these locations: mc.lcs.mit.edu 18.26.0.179 under /pub/jargon pit-manager.mit.edu 18.72.1.58 under /pub/jargon Look for a file called `jargon.<nnn>', where <nnn> is the digits of the current version number (that is, version 5.6.7 would be `jargon.567'). The Jargon File will also be available (in pieces) from a mail server at: mail-server@pit-manager.mit.edu People can mail the mail server a message containing "send jargon/index" in the subject or body in order to get a list of the available files, or "send help" to get general information about the mail server. If you are reading this on the USENET groups alt.folklore.computers,comp.misc or are on the jargon-distrib list of collaborators without news or FTP access, this note will be followed by 19 shar files which are all the parts of the Jargon File. NOTE: THIS 2.8.1 POSTING WILL PROBABLY BE THE *LAST* FULL POSTING TO GENERAL-DISTRIBUTION GROUPS BEFORE DEADLINE! This version is a draft for "The New Hacker's Dictionary", now expected to come out from MIT Press sometime in summer 1991. This draft is being circulated to the hacker community for criticism and additions. Your comments and new entries are welcomed; mail them to jargon@snark.thyrsus.com or ...!uunet!snark!jargon. There are more new entries this time than one might have predicted from the trend curve for previous revisions. This is due to incorporation of a lump of material from the legendary TMRC Dictionary. Also, many of the revised entries have been changed in the course of a complete reorganization of the material on quantification prefixes. Here are the new entries: -oid 2.7.2 AI-complete 2.7.2 angry fruit salad 2.7.2 archive 2.7.2 avatar 2.7.2 bang on 2.7.2 BITNET 2.7.2 bit twiddling 2.7.2 black magic 2.7.2 blat 2.7.2 bozotic 2.7.2 buried treasure 2.7.2 careware 2.7.2 charityware 2.7.2 chicken head 2.7.2 control-c 2.7.2 control-o 2.7.2 control-s 2.7.2 DEADBEEF 2.7.2 doc 2.7.2 droid 2.7.2 friodes 2.7.2 FUBAR 2.7.2 G 2.7.2 geef 2.7.2 go root 2.7.2 Godzillagram 2.7.2 Green's Theorem 2.7.2 gronked 2.7.2 gronk out 2.7.2 gunch 2.7.2 Hackintosh 2.7.2 juggling eggs 2.7.2 LER 2.7.2 link-dead 2.7.2 live data 2.7.2 machinable 2.7.2 Macintoy 2.7.2 meeces 2.7.2 munching 2.7.2 nano 2.7.2 Objectionable-C 2.7.2 patch space 2.7.2 pilot error 2.7.2 plokta 2.7.2 POPJ 2.7.2 pound on 2.7.2 proglet 2.7.2 psyton 2.7.2 quantifiers 2.7.2 quote chapter and verse 2.7.2 root mode 2.7.2 Saturday night special 2.7.2 SED 2.7.2 Shub-Internet 2.7.2 snail 2.7.2 store 2.7.2 sufficiently small 2.7.2 superuser 2.7.2 swapped in 2.7.2 swapped out 2.7.2 suitably small 2.7.2 thud 2.7.2 tiger team 2.7.2 to a first approximation 2.7.2 UNIX brain damage 2.7.2 VR 2.7.2 wedgie 2.7.2 womb box 2.7.2 XOFF 2.7.2 zorch 2.7.2 zorkmid 2.7.2 Deleted entries: humungous 2.7.2 swapped 2.7.2 what 2.7.2 The changed old entries: (last changed) ALT 2.7.2 AOS 2.7.2 ASCII 2.7.2 bagbiter 2.7.2 barf 2.7.2 baz 2.7.2 Berzerkeley 2.7.2 bit 2.7.2 bit bucket 2.7.2 blinkenlights 2.7.2 BLT 2.7.2 bounce 2.7.2 bucky bits 2.7.2 cross-post 2.7.2 cruft 2.7.2 dike 2.7.2 drunk mouse syndrome 2.7.2 DWIM 2.7.2 exa- 2.7.2 firefighting 2.7.2 for free 2.7.2 G 2.7.2 gig 2.7.2 giga- 2.7.2 gronk 2.7.2 i14y 2.7.2 K 2.7.2 ken 2.7.2 kilo- 2.7.2 kluge 2.7.2 M 2.7.2 meg 2.7.2 mega- 2.7.2 micro- 2.7.2 milliLampson 2.7.2 moby 2.7.2 mumble 2.7.2 nano- 2.7.2 overflow bit 2.7.2 page in 2.7.2 page out 2.7.2 parm 2.7.2 patch 2.7.2 path 2.7.2 pathological 2.7.2 peta- 2.7.2 phase of the moon 2.7.2 pico- 2.7.2 PIP 2.7.2 pizza box 2.7.2 platinum-iridium 2.7.2 poll 2.7.2 pop 2.7.2 precedence screw 2.7.2 program 2.7.2 programming 2.7.2 pubic directory 2.7.2 punt 2.7.2 QWERTY 2.7.2 random 2.7.2 random numbers 2.7.2 rape 2.7.2 rare 2.7.2 recursive acronyms 2.7.2 root 2.7.2 RTM 2.7.2 SO 2.7.2 SOS 2.7.2 system manager 2.7.2 talk mode 2.7.2 tall card 2.7.2 tera- 2.7.2 terpri 2.7.2 thunk 2.7.2 toaster 2.7.2 tool 2.7.2 toy 2.7.2 trampoline 2.7.2 tunafish 2.7.2 vaxocentrism 2.7.2 voice 2.7.2 waldo 2.7.2 Entries restored from the chaff file by popular demand: chine nual 2.7.2 JRST 2.7.2 Entries with only trivial changes (spelling, punctuation, references, minor changes of phrasing) have been omitted from the change list. The "Sports" and "Miscellaneous" section in Appendix B have been added to. The schwa character is now "*", not "@". This was done for TeXnichal typsetting reasons. Future versions up to 2.9.1 (whenever that is) will be posted as context diffs. Please get your comments and revisions in soon. The freeze deadline for the manuscript is almost upon us. I can also be reached by USnail at 22 S. Warren Ave., Malvern PA 19355 or by phone at (215)-296-5718. However, I *strongly* prefer submissions, comments and criticism to be communicated via email.