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workaround

 

  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Jargon  File  (4.2.3,  23  NOV  2000)  [jargon]: 
 
  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  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  workaround 
 
    A  temporary  {kluge}  used  to  bypass,  mask 
  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)