pilot error
<jargon>
(Sun, from aviation) A user's misconfiguration or misuse of a piece of software, producing apparently bug-like results.
E.g. "Joe Luser reported a bug in sendmail that causes it to generate bogus headers." "That's not a bug, that's pilot error. His "sendmail.cf" is hosed." Compare UBD. [Jargon File]Last updated: 1994-12-05
Nearby terms:
PILOT ♦ pilot error ♦ Pilot European Image Processing Archive ♦ PIM
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