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• pool file n. Any file to which data is spooled to await the next stage of processing.
  Especially used in circumstances where spooling the data copes with a mismatch between speeds in two devices or pieces of software....
• pool: [from early IBM `Simultaneous Peripheral Operation On-Line', but this acronym is widely thought to have been contrived for effect] vt.
  To send files to some device or program (a `spooler') that queues them up and does something useful with them later....
• aw mode: n. A mode that allows a program to transfer bits directly to or from an I/O device (o
  under {bogus} systems that make a distinction, a disk file) without any processing, abstraction, or interpretation by the operating system....
• GFR: /G-F-R/ vt. [ITS: from `Grim File Reaper', an ITS and LISP Machine utility] To remove a file or files according to some program-automated or semi-automatic manual procedure
  especially one designed to reclaim mass storage space or reduce name-space clutter (the original GFR actually moved files to tape)....
• cat: [from `catenate' via {{UNIX}} `cat(1)'] vt. 1.
  [techspeak] To spew an entire file to the screen or some other output sink without pause....
• banner: n. 1. The title page added to printouts by most print spoolers (see {spool}).
  Typically includes user or account ID information in very large character-graphics capitals....
• line noise: n. 1. [techspeak] Spurious characters due to electrical noise in a communications link, especially an RS-232 serial connection.
  Line noise may be induced by poor connections, interference or crosstalk from other circuits, electrical storms, {cosmic rays}, or (notionally) birds crapping on the phone wires....
• daemon: /day'mn/ or /dee'mn/ [from the mythological meaning, later rationalized as the acronym `Disk And Execution MONitor'] n.
  A program that is not invoked explicitly, but lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur....
• demon: n. 1. [MIT] A portion of a program that is not invoked explicitly, but that lies dormant waiting for some condition(s) to occur.
  See {daemon}. The distinction is that demons are usually processes within a program, while daemons are usually programs running on an operating system....