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line-noise
- noun Corruption by the communications medium of either
your input or your output as it is passed between your computer
and the host. Normally, new characters are added in a
vaguely random fashion, which renders input unparsable and
output unreadable. In spectacular cases, you may find that the
line-noise is meaningful to the parser or to your monitor: in
the former case, this will mean your persona does things it
wasn't instructed to do (or things it was instructed to do, but
several times more than it was so instructed); in the latter,
your screen will start printing polychrome graphics interspersed with ASCII characters you didn't even know existed.
Naturally, the likelihood of line-noise occurring is directly
proportional to the importance that it doesn't. Really severe
line-noise can cause carrier loss. See BT (not that this
will make any difference...).
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