A mode that allows a program to transfer
bits directly to or from an I/O device (or, under bogus
operating systems that make a distinction, a disk file) without any
processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system.
Compare rare mode, cooked mode. This is techspeak unde
Unix, jargon elsewhere.
cooked mode: [UNIX, by opposition with {raw mode}] n. The
normal character-input mode, with interrupts enabled and with
erase, kill and other special-character interpretations performed
directly by the tty driver....