May 15, 2003

choke

v.

[common] To reject input, often ungracefully. NULs make System V's lpr1 choke. I tried building an EMACS binary to use X, but cpp1 choked on all those #defines. See barf, vi.

Posted by Jargon File at May 15, 2003 10:54 AM

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