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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>workaround</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="../W.html" title="W"/><link rel="previous" href="wonky.html" title="wonky"/><link rel="next" href="working-as-designed.html" title="working as designed"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">workaround</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wonky.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">W</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="working-as-designed.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="workaround"/><dt xmlns="" id="workaround"><b>workaround</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. A temporary <a href="../K/kluge.html"><i class="glossterm">kluge</i></a> used to bypass, mask, or
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otherwise avoid a <a href="../B/bug.html"><i class="glossterm">bug</i></a> or
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<a href="../M/misfeature.html"><i class="glossterm">misfeature</i></a> in some system. Theoretically,
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workarounds are always replaced by <a href="../F/fix.html"><i class="glossterm">fix</i></a>es; in
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practice, customers often find themselves living with workarounds for long
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periods of time. “<span class="quote">The code died on NUL characters in the input, so I
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fixed it to interpret them as spaces.</span>” “<span class="quote">That's not a fix,
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that's a workaround!</span>” </p></dd><dd><p> 2. A procedure to be employed by the user in order to do what some
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currently non-working feature should do. Hypothetical example:
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“<span class="quote">Using META-F7 <a href="../C/crash.html"><i class="glossterm">crash</i></a>es the 4.43 build of
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Weemax, but as a workaround you can type CTRL-R, then SHIFT-F5, and delete
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the remaining <a href="../C/cruft.html"><i class="glossterm">cruft</i></a> by hand.</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="wonky.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../W.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="working-as-designed.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">wonky </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> working as designed</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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