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• 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....
• out-of-band: [from telecommunications and network theory] adj.
  1. In software, describes values of a function which are not in its `natural' range of return values, but are rather signals that some kind of exception has occurred....
• Hacking X for Y: [ITS] n. Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user.
  This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields....
• I can name that file in TWO bytes!
• magic number n. [Unix/C; common] 1. In source code
  some non-obvious constant whose value is significant to the operation of a program and that is inserted inconspicuously in-line (hardcoded), rather than expanded in by a symbol set by a commented #define....
• bits: n.pl. 1. Information. Examples: "I need some bits about file formats.
  ("I need to know about file formats.") Compare {core dump}, sense 4....
• green lightning: [IBM] n. 1. Apparently random flashing streaks on the face of 3278-9 terminals while a new symbol set is being downloaded.
  This hardware bug was left deliberately unfixed, as some genius within IBM suggested it would let the user know that `something is happening'....
• wallpaper: n. 1. A file containing a listing (e.g., assembly listing) or a transcript, esp.
  a file containing a transcript of all or part of a login session....
• cat: [from `catenate' via {{UNIX}} `cat(1)'] vt. 1.
  [techspeak] To spew an entire file to the screen or some other output sink without pause....