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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>driver</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="DRECNET.html" title="DRECNET"/><link rel="next" href="droid.html" title="droid"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">driver</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="DRECNET.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">D</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="droid.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="driver"/><dt xmlns="" id="driver"><b>driver</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. The <a href="../M/main-loop.html"><i class="glossterm">main loop</i></a> of an event-processing
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program; the code that gets commands and dispatches them for execution.
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</p></dd><dd><p> 2. [techspeak] In <span class="firstterm">device
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driver</span>, code designed to handle a particular peripheral device
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such as a magnetic disk or tape unit. </p></dd><dd><p> 3. In the TeX world and the computerized typesetting world in
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general, a program that translates some device-independent or other common
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format to something a real device can actually understand.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="DRECNET.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="droid.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">DRECNET </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> droid</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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