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• dot file [Unix] n. A file that is not visible by default to normal directory-browsing tools (on Unix
  files named with a leading dot are, by convention, not normally presented in directory listings)....
• dot file: [UNIX] n. A file that is not visible by default to normal directory-browsing tools (on UNIX
  files named with a leading dot are, by convention, not normally presented in directory listings)....
• oot n. [Unix] 1. The superuser account (with user name `root') that ignores permission bits, user number 0 on a Unix system.
  The term avatar is also used. 2. The top node of the system directory structure...
• oot: [UNIX] n. 1. The {superuser} account (with user name `root') that ignores permission bits, user number 0 on a UNIX system.
  The term {avatar} is also used. 2. The top node of the system directory structure (home directory of the root user)....
• Evil Empire n. [from Ronald Reagan's famous characterization of the communist Soviet Union] Formerly IBM, now Microsoft.
  Functionally, the company most hackers love to hate at any given time....
• Brief History Of Linux (#13) Wanted: Eunuchs programmers Everything you know about the creation of the Unix operating system is wrong.
  We have uncovered the truth: Unix was a conspiracy hatched by Ritchie and Thompson to thwart the AT&T monopoly that they worked for....
• c file /R-C fi:l/ n. [Unix: from `runcom files' on the CTSS system 1962-63
  via the startup script /etc/rc] Script file containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up....
• c file: /R-C fi:l/ [UNIX: from the startup script `/etc/rc', but this is commonly believed to have been named after older scripts to `run commands'] n.
  Script file containing startup instructions for an application program (or an entire operating system), usually a text file containing commands of the sort that might have been invoked manually once the system was running but are to be executed automatically each time the system starts up....
• oddy /nod'ee/ adj. [UK: from the children's books] 1.
  Small and un-useful, but demonstrating a point. Noddy programs are often written by people learning a new language or system....