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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>frogging</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="../F.html" title="F"/><link rel="previous" href="frog.html" title="frog"/><link rel="next" href="front-end.html" title="front end"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">frogging</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="frog.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">F</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="front-end.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="frogging"/><dt xmlns="" id="frogging"><b>frogging</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 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
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on a tty were stuck, so that some characters were correct and others were
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not. See <a href="../D/dread-high-bit-disease.html"><i class="glossterm">dread high-bit disease</i></a>. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. By extension, accidental display of text in a mode where the
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output device emits special symbols or mnemonics rather than conventional
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ASCII. This often happens, for example, when using a terminal or comm
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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.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="frog.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../F.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="front-end.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">frog </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> front end</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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