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vdiff /vee'dif/ v.,n. Visual diff. The operation of finding differences between two files by eyeball search.
The term `optical diff' has also been reported, and is sometimes more specifi...
veeblefester /vee'b*l-fes`tr/ n. [from the "Born Loser" comix via Commodore
prob....
velveeta n. [Usenet: by analogy with spam] Also knows as ECP
a message that is excessively cross-posted, as opposed to spam which is too frequently posted....
ventilator card n. Syn. lace card.
Venus flytrap n. [after the insect-eating plant] See firewall machine.
verbage /ver'b*j/ n. A deliberate misspelling and mispronunciation of verbiage that assimilates it to the word `garbage'.
Compare content-free. More pejorative than `verbiage'....
verbiage n. When the context involves a software or hardware system, this refers to documentation.
This term borrows the connotations of mainstream `verbiage' to suggest that the docume...
Version 7 alt. V7 /vee' se'vn/ n. The first widely distributed version of Unix, released unsupported by Bell Labs in 1978.
The term is used adjectivally to describe Unix features and prog...
vgrep /vee'grep/ v.,n. Visual grep. The operation of finding patterns in a file optically rather than digitally (also called an `optical grep').
See grep; compare vdiff....
vi /V-I/, not /vi:/ and never /siks/ n. [from `Visual Interface'] A screen editor crufted together by Bill Joy for an early BSD release.
Became the de facto standard Unix editor and a ne...

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