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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>print</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="../P.html" title="P"/><link rel="previous" href="prime-time.html" title="prime time"/><link rel="next" href="printing-discussion.html" title="printing discussion"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">print</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="prime-time.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">P</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="printing-discussion.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="print"/><dt xmlns="" id="print"><b>print</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">v.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> To output, even if to a screen. If a hacker says that a program
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“<span class="quote">printed a message</span>”, he means this; if he refers to printing a
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file, he probably means it in the conventional sense of writing to a
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hardcopy device (compounds like ‘print job’ and
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‘printout’, on the other hand, always refer to the
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latter). This very common term is likely a holdover from the days when
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printing terminals were the norm, perpetuated by programming language
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constructs like <a href="../C/C.html"><i class="glossterm">C</i></a>'s
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<span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">printf</span>(3)</span>.
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See senses 1 and 2 of <a href="../T/tty.html"><i class="glossterm">tty</i></a>.</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="prime-time.html">Prev</a> </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../P.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="printing-discussion.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">prime time </td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"> printing discussion</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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