cookbook n.
[from amateur electronics and radio] A book of small code
segments that the reader can use to do various magic things in programs. One current example is
the "PostScript Language
Tutorial and Cookbook" by Adobe Systems, Inc (Addison-Wesley,
ISBN 0-201-10179-3), also known as the Blue Book which has recipes for things
like wrapping text around arbitrary curves and making 3D fonts.
Cookbooks, slavishly followed, can lead one into voodoo programming, but are
useful for hackers trying to monkey
up small programs in unknown languages. This function is
analogous to the role of phrasebooks in human languages.
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cooked mode n.
[Unix, by opposition from raw
mode] The normal character-input mode, with interrupts
enabled and with erase, kill and other special-character
interpretations performed directly by the tty driver. Oppose
raw mode, rare mode. This term is techspeak under
Unix but jargon elsewhere; 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.