cooked mode: n. [Unix, by opposition from raw mode] The
normal character-input mode, with interrupts enabled and with erase,
kill and other special-character interpretations performed directly
by the tty driver. Oppose raw mode, rare mode. This term is
techspeak under Unix but jargon elsewhere; 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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