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frogging
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v. 1. Partial corruption of a text file or input stream by some bug or
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consistent glitch, as opposed to random events like line noise or media
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failures. Might occur, for example, if one bit of each incoming character on
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a tty were stuck, so that some characters were correct and others were not.
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See dread high-bit disease. 2. By extension, accidental display of text in a
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mode where the output device emits special symbols or mnemonics rather than
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conventional ASCII. This often happens, for example, when using a terminal
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or comm program on a device like an IBM PC with a special high-half
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character set and with the bit-parity assumption wrong. A hacker
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sufficiently familiar with ASCII bit patterns might be able to read the
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display anyway.
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