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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tool</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="../T.html" title="T"/><link rel="previous" href="toggle.html" title="toggle"/><link rel="next" href="toolchain.html" title="toolchain"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tool</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toggle.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toolchain.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tool"/><dt xmlns="" id="tool"><b>tool</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span>A program used primarily to
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create, manipulate, modify, or analyze other programs, such as a compiler
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or an editor or a cross-referencing program. Oppose
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<a href="../A/app.html"><i class="glossterm">app</i></a>, <a href="../O/operating-system.html"><i class="glossterm">operating system</i></a>; see
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also <a href="toolchain.html"><i class="glossterm">toolchain</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. [Unix] An application program with a simple,
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‘transparent’ (typically text-stream) interface designed
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specifically to be used in programmed combination with other tools (see
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<a href="../F/filter.html"><i class="glossterm">filter</i></a>, <a href="../P/plumbing.html"><i class="glossterm">plumbing</i></a>). </p></dd><dd><p> 3. [MIT: general to students there] <span class="grammar">vi.</span> To work; to study (connotes tedium). The
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TMRC Dictionary defined this as “<span class="quote">to set one's brain to the
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grindstone</span>”. See <a href="../H/hack.html"><i class="glossterm">hack</i></a>.</p></dd><dd><p> 4. <span class="grammar">n.</span> [MIT] A student who
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studies too much and hacks too little. (MIT's student humor magazine
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rejoices in the name <i class="citetitle">Tool and Die</i>.)</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="toggle.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../T.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="toolchain.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">toggle </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> toolchain</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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