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print
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v. To output, even if to a screen. If a hacker says that a program printed a
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message , he means this; if he refers to printing a file, he probably means
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it in the conventional sense of writing to a hardcopy device (compounds like
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print job and printout , on the other hand, always refer to the latter).
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This very common term is likely a holdover from the days when printing
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terminals were the norm, perpetuated by programming language constructs like
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C 's printf (3). See senses 1 and 2 of tty.
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