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Greenbar N. A Style Of Fanfolded Continuous-feed Paper With Alternating Green And White Bars On It, Especially Used In Old-style Line Printers.
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greenbar n.
A style of fanfolded continuous-feed paper
with alternating green and white bars on it, especially used in
old-style line printers. This slang almost certainly dates way back
to mainframe days.
Related:
line starve: [MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this).
On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen....
line starve [MIT] 1. vi. To feed paper through a printer the wrong way by one line (most printers can't do this).
On a display terminal, to move the cursor up to the previous line of the screen....
0: Numeric zero, as opposed to the letter `O' (the 15th letter of the English alphabet).
In their unmodified forms they look a lot alike, and various kluges invented to make them visually distinct have compounded the confusion....
0 Numeric zero, as opposed to the letter `O' (the 15th letter of the English alphabet).
In their unmodified forms they look a lot alike, and various kluges invented to make them visually distinct have compounded the confusion....
menuitis /men`yoo-i:'tis/ n. Notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape.
Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customizable via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks....
menuitis: /men`yoo-i:'tis/ n. Notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape.
Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customizable via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks....
A huge green fierce dragon bars the way!
A huge green fierce snake bars the way!
cut a tape vi. To write a software or document distribution on magnetic tape for shipment.
Has nothing to do with physically cutting the medium!...