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   9 <H1 CLASS="title">Glossary</H1>
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  11 <H2><A NAME="A">A</A></H2>
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  15         <DT>ASCII
  16         <DD>American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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  21 <H2><A NAME="C">C</A></H2>
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  25         <DT>C
  26         <DD>A computer language
  27
  28         <DT>Character Set
  29         <DD>The association of numbers with specific printed or
  30         displayed characters or symbols
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  35 <H2><A NAME="E">E</A></H2>
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  38
  39         <DT>ESC/P
  40         <DD>EPSON Standard Code for Printers
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  42 </DL>
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  45 <H2><A NAME="F">F</A></H2>
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  48
  49         <DT>FTP
  50         <DD>File Transfer Protocol
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  52 </DL>
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  54
  55 <H2><A NAME="G">G</A></H2>
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  59         <DT>GIF
  60         <DD>Graphics Interchange Format
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  62 </DL>
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  64
  65 <H2><A NAME="H">H</A></H2>
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  69         <DT>HP-GL
  70         <DD>Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language
  71
  72         <DT>HP-PCL
  73         <DD>Hewlett-Packard Page Control Language
  74
  75         <DT>HP-PJL
  76         <DD>Hewlett-Packard Printer Job Language
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  78 </DL>
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  80
  81 <H2><A NAME="I">I</A></H2>
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  84
  85         <DT>IETF
  86         <DD>Internet Engineering Task Force
  87
  88         <DT>IP
  89         <DD>Internet Protocol
  90
  91         <DT>IPv4
  92         <DD>Internet Protocol, version 4; IPv4 addresses are 32-bits in
  93         length and often look like "nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn" and "127.0.0.1"
  94
  95         <DT>IPv6
  96         <DD>Internet Protocol, version 6: IPv6 addresses are 128-bits in
  97         length and look like "xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx" and "::1"
  98
  99         <DT>IPP
 100         <DD>Internet Printing Protocol
 101
 102         <DT>ISO
 103         <DD>International Standards Organization
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 107
 108 <H2><A NAME="J">J</A></H2>
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 110 <DL>
 111
 112         <DT>JFIF
 113         <DD>JPEG File Interchange Format
 114
 115         <DT>JPEG
 116         <DD>Joint Photographic Experts Group
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 118 </DL>
 119
 120
 121 <H2><A NAME="L">L</A></H2>
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 123 <DL>
 124
 125         <DT>LPD
 126         <DD>Line Printer Daemon
 127
 128 </DL>
 129
 130
 131 <H2><A NAME="M">M</A></H2>
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 133 <DL>
 134
 135         <DT>MIME
 136         <DD>Multimedia Internet Mail Exchange
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 138 </DL>
 139
 140
 141 <H2><A NAME="P">P</A></H2>
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 144
 145         <DT>parallel
 146         <DD>Sending or receiving data more than 1 bit at a time
 147
 148         <DT>PDF
 149         <DD>Portable Document Format
 150
 151         <DT>pipe
 152         <DD>A one-way communications channel between two programs
 153
 154         <DT>PNG
 155         <DD>Portable Network Graphics
 156
 157         <DT>PostScript
 158         <DD>A page description language that is most often used
 159         for printing
 160
 161         <DT>PPD
 162         <DD>PostScript Printer Description
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 166
 167 <H2><A NAME="S">S</A></H2>
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 170
 171         <DT>SCSI
 172         <DD>Small Computer Systems Interface
 173
 174         <DT>serial
 175         <DD>Sending or receiving data 1 bit at a time
 176
 177         <DT>SMB
 178         <DD>Server Message Block
 179
 180         <DT>socket
 181         <DD>A two-way network communications channel
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 185
 186 <H2><A NAME="T">T</A></H2>
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 188 <DL>
 189
 190         <DT>TCP
 191         <DD>Transmission Control Protocol
 192
 193         <DT>TFTP
 194         <DD>Trivial File Transfer Protocol
 195
 196         <DT>TIFF
 197         <DD>Tagged Image File Format
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 201
 202 <H2><A NAME="U">U</A></H2>
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 204 <DL>
 205
 206         <DT>UDP
 207         <DD>Unicast Datagram Protocol
 208
 209         <DT>Unicode
 210         <DD>A universal character set for all languages of the
 211         world
 212
 213         <DT>UTF-8
 214         <DD>Unicode Transfer Format 8-Bit
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