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• TELNET /tel'net/ vt. (also commonly lowercased as `telnet') To communicate with another Internet host using the TELNET (RFC 854) protocol (usually using a program of the same name).
  TOPS-10 people used the word IMPCOM, since that was the program name for them....
• FTP: /F-T-P/, *not* /fit'ip/ 1. [techspeak] n. The File Transfer Protocol for transmitting files between systems on the Internet.
  2. vt. To {beam} a file using the File Transfer Protocol....
• glork: /glork/ 1. interj. Term of mild surprise, usually tinged with outrage, as when one attempts to save the results of two hours of editing and finds that the system has just crashed.
  2. Used as a name for just about anything. See {foo}....
• mode bit: n. A {flag}, usually in hardware, that selects between two (usually quite different) modes of operation.
  The connotations are different from {flag} bit in that mode bits are mainly written during a boot or set-up phase, are seldom explicitly read, and seldom change over the lifetime of an ordinary program....
• buried treasure: n. A surprising piece of code found in some program.
  While usually not wrong, it tends to vary from {crufty} to {bletcherous}, and has lain undiscovered only because it was functionally correct, however horrible it is....
• 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....
• postmaster: n. The email contact and maintenance person at a site connected to the Internet or UUCPNET.
  Often, but not always, the same as the {admin}....
• zap: 1. n. Spiciness. 2. vt. To make food spicy. 3.
  vt. To make someone `suffer' by making his food spicy....
• leapfrog attack: n. Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.
  g., downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc....