cooked mode

The normalUnix character-input mode, with interrupts enabled

and with erase, kill and other special-character

interpretations performed directly by the tty driver.

Opposite of raw mode. See also rare mode. Other

operating systems often have similar mode distinctions, and

the raw/rare/cooked way of describing them has spread widely

along with the C language and other Unix exports. Most

generally, "cooked mode" may refer to any mode of a system

that does extensive preprocessing before presenting data to a

program.

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