OCTAL FORTY


Meaning of OCTAL FORTY in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ /ok'tl for'tee/ n. ]

Hackish way of saying "I'm drawing a blank." Octal 40 is the ASCII space character, 0100000; by an odd coincidence, hex 40 (01000000) is the EBCDIC space character. See wall .

Jargon File English vocabulary.      Английский словарь жаргона.