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• 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....
• fence: n. 1. A sequence of one or more distinguished ({out-of-band}) characters (or other data items)
  used to delimit a piece of data intended to be treated as a unit (the computer-science literature calls this a `sentinel')....
• fence n. 1. A sequence of one or more distinguished (out-of-band) characters (or other data items)
  used to delimit a piece of data intended to be treated as a unit (the computer-science literature calls this a `sentinel')....
• ANSI /an'see/ 1. n. [techspeak] The American National Standards Institute.
  ANSI, along with the International Organization for Standards (ISO), standardized the C programming language (see K&...
• EOL: /E-O-L/ [End Of Line] n. Syn. for {newline}, derived perhaps from the original CDC6600 Pascal.
  Now rare, but widely recognized and occasionally used for brevity....
• EOL /E-O-L/ n. [End Of Line] Syn. for newline, derived perhaps from the original CDC6600 Pascal.
  Now rare, but widely recognized and occasionally used for brevity....
• egexp: /reg'eksp/ [UNIX] n. (alt. `regex' or `reg-ex') 1.
  Common written and spoken abbreviation for `regular expression', one of the wildcard patterns used, e....
• bit-paired keyboard n.,obs. (alt. `bit-shift keyboard') A non-standard keyboard layout that seems to have originated with the Teletype ASR-33 and remained common for several years on early computer equipment.
  The ASR-33 was a mechanical device (see EOU), so the only way to generate the character codes from keystrokes was by some physical linkage....
• TECO /tee'koh/ n.,v. obs. 1. [originally an acronym for `[paper] Tape Editor and COrrector'
  later, `Text Editor and COrrector'] n. A text editor developed at MIT and modified by just about everybody....