input routine


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Noun1.input routine - a routine that writes from an external source to an internal store
input program - a utility program that organizes the input to a computer
service routine, utility routine - a routine that can be used as needed
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The crash of as (the assembler originally appeared to be a result of improper use of an input routine. The crash occurred at a call to the standard input library routine ungetc(), which returns a character back to the input buffer (often used for look-ahead processing).