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WPET: Write Past End of Tape
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RWT: Read/Write while stretching Tape
If all the seas were ink, And all the reeds were pens, And all the skies were parchment, And all the men could write, These would not suffice To write down all the red tape Of this Government.
walk off the end of vt. To run past the end of an array, list, or medium after stepping through it -- a good way to land in trouble.
Often the result of an off-by-one error. Compare clobber, roach, smash the stack...
The past is still the past. -- Beck
What's a device driver? On the Unix system, all devices are supposed to look like a file.
A device driver implements typical file operations, such as open, read and write, on a file....
walk off the end of: vt. To run past the end of an array, list, or medium after stepping through it --- a good way to land in trouble.
Often the result of an {off-by-one error}. Compare {clobber}, {roach}, {smash the stack}....
BSST: BackSpace and Stretch Tape
EPT Erase Punched Tape
ETB Eat Tape and Belch