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by hand
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adv. 1. [common] Said of an operation (especially a repetitive, trivial,
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and/or tedious one) that ought to be performed automatically by the
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computer, but which a hacker instead has to step tediously through. My
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mailer doesn't have a command to include the text of the message I'm
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replying to, so I have to do it by hand. This does not necessarily mean the
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speaker has to retype a copy of the message; it might refer to, say,
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dropping into a subshell from the mailer, making a copy of one's mailbox
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file, reading that into an editor, locating the top and bottom of the
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message in question, deleting the rest of the file, inserting ` ' characters
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on each line, writing the file, leaving the editor, returning to the mailer,
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reading the file in, and later remembering to delete the file. Compare
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eyeball search. 2. [common] By extension, writing code which does something
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in an explicit or low-level way for which a presupplied library routine
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ought to have been available. This cretinous B-tree library doesn't supply a
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decent iterator, so I'm having to walk the trees by hand.
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