rare mode

from Jargon File (4.4.4, 14 Aug 2003)

rare mode
 adj.

   [Unix] CBREAK mode (character-by-character with interrupts enabled).
   Distinguished from {raw mode} and {cooked mode}; the phrase "a sort of
   half-cooked (rare?) mode" is used in the V7/BSD manuals to describe
   the mode. Usage: rare.

from The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (8 July 2008)

rare mode

   <operating system> {Unix} CBREAK mode (character-by-character
   with keyboard {interrupts} enabled).  Distinguished from {raw
   mode} and {cooked mode}; the phrase "a sort of half-cooked
   (rare?) mode" is used in the V7/BSD manuals to describe the
   mode.  Usage: rare.

   [{Jargon File}]

   (1995-05-10)