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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>dongle-disk</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="../D.html" title="D"/><link rel="previous" href="dongle.html" title="dongle"/><link rel="next" href="Doom--X-of.html" title="Doom, X of"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">dongle-disk</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dongle.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Doom--X-of.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="dongle-disk"/><dt xmlns="" id="dongle-disk"><b>dongle-disk</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="pronunciation">/don´gl disk/</span>, <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> A special floppy disk that is required in order to perform some
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task. Some contain special coding that allows an application to identify
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it uniquely, others <span class="emphasis"><em>are</em></span> special code that does
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something that normally-resident programs don't or can't. (For example,
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AT&T's “<span class="quote">Unix PC</span>” would only come up in
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<a href="../R/root-mode.html"><i class="glossterm">root mode</i></a> with a special boot disk.) Also called a <span class="firstterm">key disk</span>. See
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<a href="dongle.html"><i class="glossterm">dongle</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="dongle.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../D.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Doom--X-of.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">dongle </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> Doom, X of</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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