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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>batch</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="../B.html" title="B"/><link rel="previous" href="batbelt.html" title="batbelt"/><link rel="next" href="bathtub-curve.html" title="bathtub curve"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">batch</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="batbelt.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">B</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bathtub-curve.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="batch"/><dt xmlns="" id="batch"><b>batch</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. Non-interactive. Hackers use this somewhat more loosely than the
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traditional technical definitions justify; in particular, switches on a
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normally interactive program that prepare it to receive non-interactive
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command input are often referred to as <span class="firstterm">batch
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mode</span> switches. A <span class="firstterm">batch
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file</span> is a series of instructions written to be handed to an
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interactive program running in batch mode. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. Performance of dreary tasks all at one sitting. “<span class="quote">I finally
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sat down in batch mode and wrote out checks for all those bills; I guess
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they'll turn the electricity back on next week...</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="firstterm">batching up</span>: Accumulation
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of a number of small tasks that can be lumped together for greater
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efficiency. “<span class="quote">I'm batching up those letters to send sometime</span>”
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“<span class="quote">I'm batching up bottles to take to the recycling
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center.</span>”</p><div class="mediaobject"><a id="crunchly-2"/><img src="../graphics/crunchly-2.png"/><div class="caption"><p/><p>(The next cartoon in the Crunchly saga is
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<a href="../F/flush.html#crunchly-5678">76-03-17:5-8</a>. The previous one is
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<a href="../W/washing-machine.html#crunchly76-02-14">76-02-14</a>.)</p></div></div></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="batbelt.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../B.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="bathtub-curve.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">batbelt </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> bathtub curve</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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