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From Jargon File (4.2.3, 23 NOV 2000) [jargon]:
NAK /nak/ interj. [from the ASCII mnemonic for 0010101] 1.
On-line joke answer to {ACK}?: "I'm not here." 2. On-line answer to a
request for chat: "I'm not available." 3. Used to politely interrupt
someone to tell them you don't understand their point or that they have
suddenly stopped making sense See {ACK}, sense 3. "And then, after
we recode the project in COBOL...." "Nak, Nak, Nak! I thought I heard
you say COBOL!" 4. A negative answer. "OK if I boot the server?" "NAK!"
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (13 Mar 01) [foldoc]:
NAK
{Negative Acknowledgement}
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