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driver
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n. 1. The main loop of an event-processing program; the code that gets
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commands and dispatches them for execution. 2. [techspeak] In device driver
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, code designed to handle a particular peripheral device such as a magnetic
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disk or tape unit. 3. In the TeX world and the computerized typesetting
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world in general, a program that translates some device-independent or other
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common format to something a real device can actually understand.
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