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hop 1. n. [common] One file
transmission in a series required to get a file from point A to point B on
a store-and-forward network. On such networks (including
the old UUCP network and and FidoNet), an
important inter-machine metric is the number of hops in the shortest path
between them, which can be more significant than their geographical
separation. See bang path. 2. v. [rare] To log in to a
remote machine, esp. via rlogin or telnet. “I'll hop over to foovax
to FTP that.”
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