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workaround
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2014-04-26 11:54:15 -04:00
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n. 1. A temporary kluge used to bypass, mask, or otherwise avoid a bug or
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misfeature in some system. Theoretically, workarounds are always replaced by
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fix es; in practice, customers often find themselves living with workarounds
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for long periods of time. The code died on NUL characters in the input, so I
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fixed it to interpret them as spaces. That's not a fix, that's a workaround!
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2. A procedure to be employed by the user in order to do what some currently
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non-working feature should do. Hypothetical example: Using META-F7 crash es
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the 4.43 build of Weemax, but as a workaround you can type CTRL-R, then
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SHIFT-F5, and delete the remaining cruft by hand.
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