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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>Unix brain damage</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="../U.html" title="U"/><link rel="previous" href="Unix.html" title="Unix"/><link rel="next" href="Unix-conspiracy.html" title="Unix conspiracy"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">Unix brain damage</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Unix.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">U</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Unix-conspiracy.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="Unix-brain-damage"/><dt xmlns="" id="Unix-brain-damage"><b>Unix brain damage</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> Something that has to be done to break a network program (typically
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a mailer) on a non-Unix system so that it will interoperate with Unix
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systems. The hack may qualify as <span class="firstterm">Unix brain
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damage</span> if the program conforms to published standards and the
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Unix program in question does not. Unix brain damage happens because it is
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much easier for other (minority) systems to change their ways to match
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non-conforming behavior than it is to change all the hundreds of thousands
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of Unix systems out there.</p><p>An example of Unix brain damage is a <a href="../K/kluge.html"><i class="glossterm">kluge</i></a> in
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a mail server to recognize bare line feed (the Unix newline) as an
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equivalent form to the Internet standard newline, which is a carriage
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return followed by a line feed. Such things can make even a hardened
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<a href="../J/jock.html"><i class="glossterm">jock</i></a> weep.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="Unix.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../U.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Unix-conspiracy.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Unix </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Unix conspiracy</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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