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File In, File Out (and somebody should really say something less cryptic about this one day)
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File In, File Out or First In, First Out. Used to describe processes that loop -- e.g., a logfile that is limited to a certain size and once it gets to it's largest size, starts rewriting over the earliest entries -- the early entries were first in, so they're the first ones to go. Compare with [[FILO]]
 
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Latest revision as of 20:30, 9 October 2005

File In, File Out or First In, First Out. Used to describe processes that loop -- e.g., a logfile that is limited to a certain size and once it gets to it's largest size, starts rewriting over the earliest entries -- the early entries were first in, so they're the first ones to go. Compare with FILO

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