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• mouse around: vi. To explore public portions of a large system, esp.
  a network such as Internet via {FTP} or {TELNET}, looking for interesting stuff to {snarf}....
• hop 1. n. [common] One file transmission in a series required to get a file from point A to point B on a store-and-forward network.
  On such networks (including UUCPNET and FidoNet), an important inter-machine metric is the number of hops in the shortest path between them, which can be more significant than their geographical separation....
• hop: 1. n. One file transmission in a series required to get a file from point A to point B on a store-and-forward network.
  On such networks (including {UUCPNET} and {FidoNet}), an important inter-machine metric is the number of hops in the shortest path between them, which can be more significant than their geographical separation....
• arf: /snarf/ vt. 1. To grab, esp. to grab a large document or file for the purpose of using it with or without the author's permission.
  See also {BLT}. 2. [in the UNIX community] To fetch a file or set of files across a network....
• Shub-Internet /shuhb' in't*r-net/ n. [MUD: from H.
  P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity Shub-Niggurath, the Black Goat with a Thousand Young] The harsh personification of the Interne...
• grep /grep/ vi. [from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p
  where re stands for a regular expression, to Globally search for the Regular Expression and Print the lines containing matches to it, via Unix grep(1)] To rapidly scan a file or set of files looking for a particular string or pattern (when browsing through a large set of files, one may speak of `grepping around')....
• Shub-Internet: /shuhb in't*r-net/ [MUD: from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity `Shub-Niggurath', the Black Goat with a Thousand Young] n.
  The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting...
• File Request: [FidoNet] 1. n. The {FidoNet} equivalent of {FTP}, in which one BBS system automatically dials another and {snarf}s one or more files.
  Often abbreviated `FReq'; files are often announced as being "available for FReq" in the same way that files are announced as being "available for/by anonymous FTP" on the Internet....
• arf /snarf/ vt. 1. To grab, esp. to grab a large document or file for the purpose of using it with or without the author's permission.
  See also BLT. 2. [in the Unix community] To fetch a file or set of files across a network....