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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>zap</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="../Z.html" title="Z"/><link rel="previous" href="../Z.html" title="Z"/><link rel="next" href="zapped.html" title="zapped"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">zap</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../Z.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">Z</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="zapped.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="zap"/><dt xmlns="" id="zap"><b>zap</b></dt></dt><dd><p> 1. <span class="grammar">n.</span> Spiciness. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To make food spicy.
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</p></dd><dd><p> 3. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To make someone
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‘suffer’ by making his food spicy. (Most hackers love spicy
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food. Hot-and-sour soup is considered wimpy unless it makes you wipe your
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nose for the rest of the meal.) See <a href="zapped.html"><i class="glossterm">zapped</i></a>.
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</p></dd><dd><p> 4. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To modify, usually to
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correct; esp. used when the action is performed with a debugger or binary
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patching tool. Also implies surgical precision. “<span class="quote">Zap the debug
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level to 6 and run it again.</span>” In the IBM mainframe world, binary
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patches are applied to programs or to the OS with a program called
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‘superzap’, whose file name is ‘IMASPZAP’ (possibly
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contrived from I M A SuPerZAP). </p></dd><dd><p> 5. <span class="grammar">vt.</span> To erase or reset.
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</p></dd><dd><p> 6. To <a href="../F/fry.html"><i class="glossterm">fry</i></a> a chip with static electricity.
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“<span class="quote">Uh oh — I think that lightning strike may have zapped the disk
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controller.</span>”</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="../Z.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../Z.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="zapped.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">Z </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> zapped</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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