pip

n 1: a disease of poultry

2: a minor nonspecific ailment

3: a mark on a playing card (shape depending on the suit) [syn:

{spot}]

v 1: kill by firing a missile [syn: {shoot}]

2: hit with a missile from a weapon [syn: {shoot}, {hit}]

3: colloquial usage; defeat thoroughly; "He mopped up the floor

with his opponents" [syn: {worst}, {mop up}, {whip}, {rack

up}]

PIP

Peripheral Interchange Program.

A program on {CP/M}, {RSX-11}, {RSTS/E}, {TOPS-10}, and {OS/8}

(derived from a utility on the {PDP-6}) that was used for file

copying (and in OS/8 and RT-11 for just about every other file

operation you might want to do). It is said that when the

program was written, during the development of the PDP-6 in

1963, it was called ATLATL ("Anything, Lord, to Anything,

Lord"; this played on the Nahuatl word "atlatl" for a

spear-thrower, with connotations of utility and primitivity

that were no doubt quite intentional).

See also {BLT}, {dd}, {cat}.

[{Jargon File}]

(1995-03-28)