Zap




<jargon> 1. To modify, usually to correct; especially used when the action is performed with a debugger or binary patching tool.

Also implies surgical precision.

"Zap the debug level to 6 and run it again."

In the IBM mainframe world, binary patches are applied to programs or to the operating system with a program called "superzap", whose file name is "IMASPZAP" (possibly contrived from I M A SuPerZAP).

See also Zero and Add Packed.

2. To fry a chip with static electricity.

"Uh oh - I think that lightning strike may have zapped the disk controller."



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