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• arf & barf /snarf'n-barf`/ n. Under a WIMP environme
  he act of grabbing a region of text and then stuffing the contents of that region into another region (or the same one) to avoid retyping a command line....
• 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....
• baud barf: /bawd barf/ n. The garbage one gets on the monitor when using a modem connection with some protocol setting (esp.
  line speed) incorrect, or when someone picks up a voice extension on the same line, or when really bad line noise disrupts the connection....
• WIMP environment: n. [acronym: `Window, Icon, Menu, Pointing device (or Pull-down menu)'] A graphical-user-interface environment such as {X} or the Macintosh interface, esp.
  as described by a hacker who prefers command-line interfaces for their superior flexibility and extensibility....
• menuitis: /men`yoo-i:'tis/ n. Notional disease suffered by software with an obsessively simple-minded menu interface and no escape.
  Hackers find this intensely irritating and much prefer the flexibility of command-line or language-style interfaces, especially those customizable via macros or a special-purpose language in which one can encode useful hacks....
• barf: /barf/ [from mainstream slang meaning `vomit'] 1.
  interj. Term of disgust. This is the closest hackish equivalent of the Val\-speak "gag me with a spoon"....
• 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....
• 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....
• WAITS:: /wayts/ n. The mutant cousin of {{TOPS-10}} used on a handful of systems at {{SAIL}} up to 1990.
  There was never an `official' expansion of WAITS (the name itself having been arrived at by a rather sideways process), but it was frequently glossed as `West-coast Alternative to ITS'....