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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Workaround | by the DICT Development Group |
| 2 results for Workaround | |
| From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
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workaround n. 1. A temporary {kluge} used to bypass, mask, or otherwise avoid a {bug} or {misfeature} in some system. Theoretically, workarounds are always replaced by {fix}es; in practice, customers often find themselves living with workarounds for long periods of time. "The code died on NUL characters in the input, so I fixed it to interpret them as spaces." "That's not a fix, that's a workaround!" 2. A procedure to be employed by the user in order to do what some currently non-working feature should do. Hypothetical example: "Using META-F7 {crash}es the 4.43 build of Weemax, but as a workaround you can type CTRL-R, then SHIFT-F5, and delete the remaining {cruft} by hand." | |
| From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
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workaround or otherwise avoid a {bug} or {misfeature} in some system. Customers often find themselves living with workarounds for long periods of time rather than getting a {bug fix}. [{Jargon File}] (1998-06-25) | |
