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• poll: v.,n. 1. [techspeak] The action of checking the status of an input line, sensor, or memory location to see if a particular external event has been registered.
  2. To repeatedly call or check with someone: "I keep polling him, but he's not answering his phone...
• wap: vt. 1. [techspeak] To move information from a fast-access memory to a slow-access memory (`swap out'), or vice versa (`swap in').
  Often refers specifically to the use of disks as `virtual memory'....
• wap vt. 1. [techspeak] To move information from a fast-access memory to a slow-access memory (`swap out'), or vice versa (`swap in').
  Often refers specifically to the use of disks as `virtual memory'....
• ping [from the submariners' term for a sonar pulse] 1.
  . Slang term for a small network message (ICMP ECHO) sent by a computer to check for the presence and alertness of another....
• vi: /V-I/, *not* /vi:/ and *never* /siks/ [from `Visual Interface'] n.
  A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early {BSD} release....
• EOF /E-O-F/ n. [abbreviation, `End Of File'] 1.
  [techspeak] The out-of-band value returned by C's sequential character-input functions (and their equivalents in other environments) when end of file has been reached....
• EOF: /E-O-F/ [abbreviation, `End Of File'] n. 1. [techspeak] The {out-of-band} value returned by C's sequential character-input functions (and their equivalents in other environments) when end of file has been reached.
  This value is -1 under C libraries postdating V6 UNIX, but was originally 0....
• Real World, The n.: 1. In programming, those institutions at which programming may be used in the same sentence as FORTRAN, COBOL, RPG, IBM, etc.
  2. To programmers, the location of non-programmers and activities not related to programming....
• Real World, The n.: 1. In programming, those institutions at which programming may be used in the same sentence as FORTRAN, COBOL, RPG, IBM, etc.
  2. To programmers, the location of non-programmers and activities not related to programming....