footprint

n : a mark of a foot or shoe on a surface; a clue that someone

was present; "the police made casts of the footprints in

the soft earth outside the window" [syn: {footmark}, {step}]

footprint

1. The floor or desk area taken up by a

piece of hardware.

2. The amount of {disk} or {RAM} taken up by

a program or file.

3. ({IBM}) The {audit trail} left by a crashed program (often

"footprints").

See also {toeprint}.

[{Jargon File}]

(1995-04-25)