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• massage vt. [common] Vague term used to describe `smooth' transformations of a data set into a different form, esp.
  ansformations that do not lose information. Connotes less pain than munch or crunch....
• munch: [often confused with {mung}, q.v.] vt. To transform information in a serial fashion, often requiring large amounts of computation.
  To trace down a data structure. Related to {crunch} and nearly synonymous with {grovel}, but connotes less pain....
• munch vt. [often confused with mung, q.v.] To transform information in a serial fashion, often requiring large amounts of computation.
  To trace down a data structure. Related to crunch and nearly synonymous with grovel, but connotes less pain....
• crunch: 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way.
  Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform....
• green bytes: n. (also `green words') 1. Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name
  as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record....
• crunch 1. vi. To process, usually in a time-consuming or complicated way.
  Connotes an essentially trivial operation that is nonetheless painful to perform....
• arf: /snarf/ vt. 1. To grab, esp. to grab a large document or file for the purpose of using it with or without the author's permission.
  See also {BLT}. 2. [in the UNIX community] To fetch a file or set of files across a network....
• protocol: n. As used by hackers, this never refers to niceties about the proper form for addressing letters to the Papal Nuncio or the order in which one should use the forks in a Russian-style place setting
  hackers don't care about such things. It is used instead to describe any set of rules that allow different machines or pieces of software to coordinate with each other without ambiguity....
• munge /muhnj/ vt. 1. [derogatory] To imperfectly transform information.
  2. A comprehensive rewrite of a routine, data structure or the whole program....