About: TNHD.TEXT.SHK and TNHD.PICS.SHK Uploaded: 1/21/2000 as ShrinkIt archives Contents: ProDOS ASCII text file (size 1,353k) and two Apple IIgs SHR color graphic files Text file Title: The New Hackers Dictionary - Version 4.1.4 (aka - Jargon File 4.1.4) Original release: June 17, 1999 Status: Public Domain Converted to a ProDOS standard ASCII text file with two related SHR graphics included, with ŒThe New Hackers Dictionaryı front book cover art and the current editor/authors picture. Both were converted from color png graphic files to Apple IIgs SHR color graphic file types; $C1 and $C0. The two SHR color graphic files named Authors.PIC.C0 and TNHD.Cover.C1 were converted on a Mac PPC using Debabelizer v3.0 and are contained in the ShrinkIt archive - TNHD.PICS.SHK. What is ŒThe New Hackers Dictionaryı - Version 4.1.4 (aka - Jargon File 4.1.4)? This is ŒThe Jargon Fileı, the most current updated version available, released on June 17, 1999 as a comprehensive compendium of hacker slang illuminating many aspects of hackish tradition, folklore, and humor. This document (the Jargon File) is in the public domain, to be freely used, shared, and modified. There are (by intention) no legal restraints on what you can do with it, but there are traditions about its proper use to which many hackers are quite strongly attached. Please extend the courtesy of proper citation when you quote the File, ideally with a version number, as it will change and grow over time. (Examples of appropriate citation form: "Jargon File 4.1.4"). This document is a collection of slang terms used by various subcultures of computer hackers. Though some technical material is included for background and flavor, it is not a technical dictionary; what we describe here is the language hackers use among themselves for fun, social communication, and technical debate. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- With the current surge in program development for the Apple IIgs, by both old and new people to this computer, seeing some of the unknown abilities of the IIgs becoming working realities in this period of renewed interest with it, I thought the time was ripe to take this classic ŒNew Hackers Dictionaryı and make it available to all Apple IIgs users, as a ProDOS text file, for your use, humor and reference. Why? Well, so that Apple II and IIgs users, hackers, programmers and all others in whatever classor way they want to be labeled - might learn from its content and perhaps even make a friendly link with other hackers, programmers and such around the world through connecting with them on the Internet to exchange their thoughts, desires and interest. Doing such things with others around the world can lead to some great friendships and some productive applications for the Apple II community needs. In any event, thatıs the reason I made the archives and uploaded them - so you could have and put ŒThe New Hackers Dictionaryı to some useful needs. I hope it proves to be of interest and value by stimulating something that might improvement and enhancement the IIgs computer abilities for the needs of their current and future users - now and in the years to come. Cheers, Enjoy & Best Wishes, Tom ----------------------------------- Charles T. ŒDr.Tomı Turley Email; cturley@grin.net WWW: http://www.grin.net/~cturley/