workaround

n. 1. A temporary kluge used to bypass, mask, or otherwise avoid a bug or
misfeature in some system. Theoretically, workarounds are always replaced by
fix es; in practice, customers often find themselves living with workarounds
for long periods of time. The code died on NUL characters in the input, so I
fixed it to interpret them as spaces. That's not a fix, that's a workaround!
2. A procedure to be employed by the user in order to do what some currently
non-working feature should do. Hypothetical example: Using META-F7 crash es
the 4.43 build of Weemax, but as a workaround you can type CTRL-R, then
SHIFT-F5, and delete the remaining cruft by hand.

