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Newsgroups: net.jokes
Subject: COMMON UNIX TERMS
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Date: Mon, 5-Mar-84 22:54:51 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar  5 22:54:51 1984
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	SOME COMMON UNIX TERMS EXPLAINED

Unix:		More than one Programmer (singular: Unik)

CRT:		Cathode Ray Tube- a TV Set with an alphabet

File:		A queue or line of Unix, usually found in front of a CRT.

Directory:	A telephone book (of course)

Root:		Verb; to search, eg. he rooted through the Directory
		looking for Unix

Shell:		Verb; to bombard with explosive devices

Mini-shell:	Spitball Barrage

Program:	A story or play seen on a CRT

Subroutine:	A program which has become so boring and monotonous
		that it is less than routine

Debugger:	Defamatory reference to a Unik, eg. "debugger took my CRT"

I/O:		Verb phrase: denotes indebtedness, eg. "I/O him $5"

Path name:	Signs in the woods for dumb loggers to find their way

Processor:	A member of the sheriff's department who serves papers

Real Time:	The experience you had when your wife visited her
		mother out of state, and the Avon lady rang your chimes.

Compilation:	A temporary disorder of the Gastro-intestinal tract,
		usually treated with a laxative

Core Dump:	What the treatment of compilation should result in

Epic Dump:	A core dump of heroic proportion

Memory:		Part of the female human anatomy

Unibus:		Primary means of transportation for unix,
		alternatively, a single unit of memory

Stack:		Adjective; often applied to large memroy systems

Register:	A sometimes embarassing procedure that must be
		followed when seeking lodging for half a night

Complement:	A statement you hope to receive from a supervisor
		before going on social security

Logger:		Tough unix who chop down trees

Browser:	Name of a dog owned by a Logger, well know because
		of training, responds go such commands as; goto, kill,
		nice, and cat.  May be heard making the sound "roff"

Conversion:	An operating system often performed in Sweden or Denmark

Expansion:	An action which sometimes takes place when a male 
		unik sees a stacked memory

Pident:		A depression in a piece of pastry

Fork:		A tool for making pidents


				-D. Fishbein
				 NIH, Bethesda, MD