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frogging: v. 1. Partial corruption of a text file or input stream by some bug or
consistent glitch, as opposed to random events like line noise or media
failures. Might occur, for example, if one bit of each incoming character
on a tty were stuck, so that some characters were correct and others were
not. See dread high-bit disease. 2. By extension, accidental display of text in a mode where the
output device emits special symbols or mnemonics rather than conventional
ASCII. This often happens, for example, when using a terminal or comm
program on a device like an IBM PC with a special ‘high-half’
character set and with the bit-parity assumption wrong. A hacker
sufficiently familiar with ASCII bit patterns might be able to read the
display anyway.
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