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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>hang</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../H.html" title="H"/><link rel="previous" href="handwave.html" title="handwave"/><link rel="next" href="Hanlons-Razor.html" title="Hanlon's Razor"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">hang</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="handwave.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">H</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Hanlons-Razor.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="hang"/><dt xmlns="" id="hang"><b>hang</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. [very common] To wait for an event that will never occur.
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“<span class="quote">The system is hanging because it can't read from the crashed
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drive</span>”. See <a href="../W/wedged.html"><i class="glossterm">wedged</i></a>,
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<a href="hung.html"><i class="glossterm">hung</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. To wait for some event to occur; to hang around until something
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happens. “<span class="quote">The program displays a menu and then hangs until you type
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a character.</span>” Compare <a href="../B/block.html"><i class="glossterm">block</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. To attach a peripheral device, esp. in the construction
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‘hang off’: “<span class="quote">We're going to hang another tape drive off
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the file server.</span>” Implies a device attached with cables, rather than
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