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• off:: /N'rof/ [UNIX, from "new roff" (see {{troff}})] n.
  A companion program to the UNIX typesetter {{troff}}, accepting identical input but preparing output for terminals and line printers....
• off /T'rof/ or /trof/ n. [Unix] The gray eminence of Unix text processing
  a formatting and phototypesetting program, written originally in PDP-11 assembler and then in barely-structured early C by the late Joseph Ossanna, modeled after the earlier ROFF which was in turn modeled after the Multics and CTSS program RUNOFF by Jerome Saltzer (that name came from the expression "to run off a copy")....
• 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....
• Unix /yoo'niks/ n. [In the authors' words, "A weak pun on Multic
  very early on it was `UNICS'] (also `UNIX') An interactive time-sharing system invented in 1969 by Ken Thompson after Bell Labs left the Multics project, originally so he could play games on his scavenged PDP-7....
• 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....
• filter n. [very common; orig. Unix, now also in MS-DOS] A program that processes an input data stream into an output data stream in some well-defined way
  and does no I/O to anywhere else except possibly on error conditio...
• ponge n. [Unix] A special case of a filter that reads its entire input before writing any outpu
  he canonical example is a sort utility. Unlike most filters, a sponge can conveniently overwrite the input file with the output data stream....
• ponge: [UNIX] n. A special case of a {filter} that reads its entire input before writing any outpu
  he canonical example is a sort utility. Unlike most filters, a sponge can conveniently overwrite the input file with the output data stream....
• grind vt. 1. [MIT and Berkeley; now rare] To prettify hardcopy of code, especially LISP code, by reindenting lines, printing keywords and comments in distinct fonts (if available), etc.
  This usage was associated with the MacLISP community and is now rare...