1. <compiler> A huge volume of spurious error-messages output
by a compiler with poor error recovery. Too frequently,
one trivial syntax error (such as a missing ")" or "}")
throws the parser out of synch so that much of the remaining
program text, whether correct or not, is interpreted as
garbaged or ill-formed.
2. <messaging> A chain of Usenet followups, each adding some
trivial variation or riposte to the text of the previous one,
all of which is reproduced in the new message; an include
war in which the object is to create a sort of communal
graffito.
3. <networking> A collection of interconneced networking
devices, typically hubs, that allows those devices to act
together as a logical repeater.
[Jargon File]
(1997-07-17)
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