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• You are not expected to understand this [Unix] cav.
  The canonical comment describing something magic or too complicated to bother explaining properly....
• condition out: vt. To prevent a section of code from being compiled by surrounding it with a conditional-compilation directive whose condition is always false.
  The {canonical} examples of these directives are `#if 0' (or `#ifdef notdef', though some find the latter {bletcherous}) and `#endif' in C....
• comment out: vt. To surround a section of code with comment delimiters or to prefix every line in the section with a comment marke
  his prevents it from being compiled or interpreted....
• Lions Book: n. "Source Code and Commentary on UNIX level 6", by John Lions.
  The two parts of this book contained (1) the entire source listing of the UNIX Version 6 kernel, and (2) a commentary on the source discussing the algorithms....
• control-C: vi. 1. "Stop whatever you are doing." From the interrupt character used on many operating systems to abort a running program.
  Considered silly. 2. interj. Among BSD UNIX hackers, the canonical humorous response to "Give me a break!...
• automagically: /aw-toh-maj'i-klee/ or /aw-toh-maj'i-k*l-ee/ adv.
  Automatically, but in a way that, for some reason (typically because it is too complicated, or too ugly, or perhaps even too trivial), the speaker doesn't feel like explaining to you....
• pistol: [IBM] n. A tool that makes it all too easy for you to shoot yourself in the foot.
  UNIX `rm *' makes such a nice pistol!" -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• boxed comments: n. Comments (explanatory notes attached to program instructions) that occupy several lines by themselve
  o called because in assembler and C code they are often surrounded by a box in a style something like thi...
• magic: adj. 1. As yet unexplained, or too complicated to explai
  compare {automagically} and (Arthur C.) Clarke's Third Law...