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dongle-disk
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/dongl disk/ , n. A special floppy disk that is required in order to perform
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some task. Some contain special coding that allows an application to
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identify it uniquely, others are special code that does something that
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normally-resident programs don't or can't. (For example, AT&T's Unix PC
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would only come up in root mode with a special boot disk.) Also called a key
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disk. See dongle.
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