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• bits pl.n. 1. Information. Examples: "I need some bits about file formats.
  ("I need to know about file formats.") Compare core dump, sense 4....
• core dump: n. [common {Iron Age} jargon, preserved by UNIX] 1.
  [techspeak] A copy of the contents of {core}, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error....
• ource of all good bits: n. A person from whom (or a place from which) useful information may be obtained.
  If you need to know about a program, a {guru} might be the source of all good bits....
• bit bucket n. [very common] 1. The universal data sink (originally, the mythical receptacle used to catch bits when they fall off the end of a register during a shift instruction).
  Discarded, lost, or destroyed data is said to have `gone to the bit bucket'....
• core dump n. [common Iron Age jargon, preserved by Unix] 1.
  [techspeak] A copy of the contents of core, produced when a process is aborted by certain kinds of internal error....
• oftcopy: /soft'kop-ee/ n. [by analogy with `hardcopy'] A machine-readable form of corresponding hardcopy.
  See {bits}, {machinable}. -- The AI Hackers Dictionary...
• diff: /dif/ n. 1. A change listing, especially giving differences between (and additions to) source code or documents (the term is often used in the plural `diffs').
  Send me your diffs for the Jargon File!" Compare {vdiff}....
• green bytes: n. (also `green words') 1. Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name
  as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record....
• ybble /nib'l/ (alt. `nibble') n. [from v. `nibble' by analogy with `bite' =&g
  `byte'] Four bits; one hex digit; a half-byte. Though `byte' is now techspeak, this useful relative is still jargon....