well-behaved
1. [primarily MS-DOS] Said of software conforming to system interface guidelines
and standards. Well-behaved software uses the operating system to do chores such
as keyboard input, allocating memory and drawing graphics. Oppose ill-behaved.
2. Software that does its job quietly and without counterintuitive effects.
Especially said of software having an interface spec sufficiently simple and
well-defined that it can be used as a tool by other software. See cat.
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