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bug-compatible
adj. [common] Said of a design or revision that has been badly compromised
by a requirement to be compatible with fossil s or misfeature s in other
programs or (esp.) previous releases of itself. MS-DOS 2.0 used \ as a path
separator to be bug-compatible with some cretin's choice of / as an option
character in 1.0.