wallpaper
1. A file containing a listing (e.g. assembly listing) or a transcript,
especially a file containing a transcript of all or part of a login session.
(The idea was that the paper for such listings was essentially good only for
wallpaper, as evidenced at Stanford, where it was used to cover windows).
The term is now rare, especially since other systems have developed other terms
for it (e.g. PHOTO on TWENEX). However, the Unix world doesn't have an
equivalent term, so perhaps wallpaper will take hold there. The term probably
originated on ITS, where the commands to begin and end transcript files were
":WALBEG" and ":WALEND", with default file "WALL PAPER" (the space was a path
delimiter).
2. The background pattern used on graphical workstations under the Microsoft
Windows graphical user interface to MS-DOS.
(1994-12-22)
Nearby terms:
wall « wall clock time « wall follower «
wallpaper » wall time » WAM » WAN
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