wallpaper

wallpaper
    n 1: a decorative paper for the walls of rooms
    v 1: cover with wallpaper [syn: {wallpaper}, {paper}]
    

wallpaper

   1. A file containing a listing (e.g. assembly listing) or a
   transcript, especially a file containing a transcript of all
   or part of a login session.  (The idea was that the paper for
   such listings was essentially good only for wallpaper, as
   evidenced at {Stanford}, where it was used to cover windows).

   The term is now rare, especially since other systems have
   developed other terms for it (e.g. PHOTO on {TWENEX}).
   However, the {Unix} world doesn't have an equivalent term, so
   perhaps wallpaper will take hold there.  The term probably
   originated on {ITS}, where the commands to begin and end
   transcript files were ":WALBEG" and ":WALEND", with default
   file "WALL PAPER" (the space was a path delimiter).

   2. The background pattern used on graphical workstations under
   the {Microsoft Windows} {graphical user interface} to
   {MS-DOS}.

   (1994-12-22)
    

21 Moby Thesaurus words for "wallpaper":
      board, brick, clapboard, face, glass, glaze, lath, paper, plank,
      revet, shake, sheathe, shingle, slate, stone, thatch, tile, veneer,
      wall in, wall up, weatherboard