meaning of cooked mode

1. cooked mode The normalUnix character-input mode, with interrupts enabled and with erase, kill and other special-character interpretations performed directly by the tty driver. Opposite of raw mode. See also rare mode. Other operating systems often have similar mode distinctions, and the raw/rare/cooked way of describing them has spread widely along with the C language and other Unix exports. Most generally, "cooked mode" may refer to any mode of a system that does extensive preprocessing before presenting data to a program. [Jargon File] cookie 1. Web> HTTP cookie. 2. A handle, transaction ID, or other token of agreement between cooperating programs. "I give him a packet, he gives me back a cookie". The ticket you get from a dry-cleaning shop is a perfect mundane example of a cookie; the only thing its useful for is to relate a later transaction to this one so you get the same clothes back. Compare magic cookie; see also fortune cookie. 3. jargon> A cracker term for the password list on a multi-user computer. 4. An adjective describing a computer that just became toast.

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