cooked mode

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cooked mode - Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (26 May 2007) :

  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.
  
     [Jargon File]
  

cooked mode - Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003) :

  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.