runes
1. Anything that requires heavy wizardry or black art to parse: core dumps, JCL
commands, APL or code in a language you haven't a clue how to read. Not quite as
bad as line noise, but close.
Compare casting the runes, Great Runes.
2. Special display characters (for example, the high-half graphics on an IBM
PC).
[Jargon File]
Nearby terms:
RUFL « run « RUNCIBLE « runes » runic »
run-length encoding » Run Length Limited
|