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• mouse around vi. To explore public portions of a large system, esp.
  a network such as Internet via FTP or TELNET, looking for interesting stuff to snarf....
• hop: 1. n. One file transmission in a series required to get a file from point A to point B on a store-and-forward network.
  On such networks (including {UUCPNET} and {FidoNet}), an important inter-machine metric is the number of hops in the shortest path between them, which can be more significant than their geographical separation....
• 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....
• File Request: [FidoNet] 1. n. The {FidoNet} equivalent of {FTP}, in which one BBS system automatically dials another and {snarf}s one or more files.
  Often abbreviated `FReq'; files are often announced as being "available for FReq" in the same way that files are announced as being "available for/by anonymous FTP" on the Internet....
• awl: v. To sift through large volumes of data (e.
  g., USENET postings, FTP archives, or the Jargon File) looking for something of interest....
• locals, the: pl.n. The users on one's local network (as opposed, say, to people one reaches via public Internet or UUCP connects).
  The marked thing about this usage is how little it has to do with real-space distance....
• Shub-Internet: /shuhb in't*r-net/ [MUD: from H. P. Lovecraft's evil fictional deity `Shub-Niggurath', the Black Goat with a Thousand Young] n.
  The harsh personification of the Internet, Beast of a Thousand Processes, Eater of Characters, Avatar of Line Noise, and Imp of Call Waiting...
• blast: 1. vt.,n. Synonym for {BLT}, used esp. for large data sends over a network or comm line.
  Opposite of {snarf}. Usage: uncommon. The variant `blat' has been reported....
• grep: /grep/ [from the qed/ed editor idiom g/re/p
  where re stands for a regular expression, to Globally search for the Regular Expression and Print the lines containing matches to it, via {{UNIX}} `grep(1)'] vt....