From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Mar 19 13:30:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA23754 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 13:30:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from xmission.xmission.com (softweyr@xmission.xmission.com [198.60.22.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA23749 for ; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 13:30:34 -0800 (PST) Received: (from softweyr@localhost) by xmission.xmission.com (8.8.5/8.7.5) id OAA06363; Wed, 19 Mar 1997 14:30:22 -0700 (MST) From: Softweyr LLC Message-Id: <199703192130.OAA06363@xmission.xmission.com> Subject: Re: grok ? To: dgy@rtd.com (Don Yuniskis) Date: Wed, 19 Mar 1997 14:30:19 -0700 (MST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199703191732.KAA13800@seagull.rtd.com> from "Don Yuniskis" at Mar 19, 97 10:32:26 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk % "grok" isn't in my vocabulary. I assume it means "support" or "handle" > It's from a Heinlein novel (perhaps _Stranger in a Strange Land_? Sorry, Yes, from _Stranger in a Strange Land_, from the character Michael Smith, who was raised by Martians. It is a Martian word, apparently, adapted for human speech. > I can't recall things that I've read that long ago... Maybe _I will Fear > No Evil_?). Basically, it means "understand" (though in the Heinlein > context it meant far more...) It means to understand fully, in the context of the thing being understood. In this case, a drive that "groks" tagged commands would both implement them *and* do something useful with them. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC http://www.xmission.com/~softweyr softweyr@xmission.com