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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>tron</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="Troll-O-Meter.html" title="Troll-O-Meter"/><link rel="next" href="troughie.html" title="troughie"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">tron</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Troll-O-Meter.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">T</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="troughie.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="tron"/><dt xmlns="" id="tron"><b>tron</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [NRL, CMU; prob. fr. the movie <i class="citetitle">Tron</i>] To
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become inaccessible except via email or
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">talk</span>(1)</span>,
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especially when one is normally available via telephone or in person.
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Frequently used in the past tense, as in: “<span class="quote">Ran seems to have tronned
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on us this week</span>” or “<span class="quote">Gee, Ran, glad you were able to un-tron
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yourself</span>”. One may also speak of <span class="firstterm">tron
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mode</span>; compare <a href="../S/spod.html"><i class="glossterm">spod</i></a>.</p><p>Note that many dialects of BASIC have a TRON/TROFF command pair that
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enables/disables line number tracing; this has no obvious relationship to
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the slang usage.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Troll-O-Meter.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="troughie.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Troll-O-Meter </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> troughie</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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