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   4         <TITLE>Glossary</TITLE>
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   8 <H2><A NAME="A">A</A></H2>
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  10 <DL>
  11
  12         <DT>ASCII
  13         <DD>American Standard Code for Information Interchange
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  18 <H2><A NAME="C">C</A></H2>
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  22         <DT>C
  23         <DD>A computer language
  24
  25         <DT>Character Set
  26         <DD>The association of numbers with specific printed or
  27         displayed characters or symbols
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  29 </DL>
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  31
  32 <H2><A NAME="E">E</A></H2>
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  35
  36         <DT>ESC/P
  37         <DD>EPSON Standard Code for Printers
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  39 </DL>
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  41
  42 <H2><A NAME="F">F</A></H2>
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  44 <DL>
  45
  46         <DT>FTP
  47         <DD>File Transfer Protocol
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  49 </DL>
  50
  51
  52 <H2><A NAME="G">G</A></H2>
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  55
  56         <DT>GIF
  57         <DD>Graphics Interchange Format
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  59 </DL>
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  61
  62 <H2><A NAME="H">H</A></H2>
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  65
  66         <DT>HP-GL
  67         <DD>Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language
  68
  69         <DT>HP-PCL
  70         <DD>Hewlett-Packard Page Control Language
  71
  72         <DT>HP-PJL
  73         <DD>Hewlett-Packard Printer Job Language
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  75 </DL>
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  78 <H2><A NAME="I">I</A></H2>
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  82         <DT>IETF
  83         <DD>Internet Engineering Task Force
  84
  85         <DT>IP
  86         <DD>Internet Protocol
  87
  88         <DT>IPv4
  89         <DD>Internet Protocol, version 4; IPv4 addresses are 32-bits in
  90         length and often look like "nnn.nnn.nnn.nnn" and "127.0.0.1"
  91
  92         <DT>IPv6
  93         <DD>Internet Protocol, version 6: IPv6 addresses are 128-bits in
  94         length and look like "xxxx::xxxx:xxxx:xxxx:xxxx" and "::1"
  95
  96         <DT>IPP
  97         <DD>Internet Printing Protocol
  98
  99         <DT>ISO
 100         <DD>International Standards Organization
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 104
 105 <H2><A NAME="J">J</A></H2>
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 107 <DL>
 108
 109         <DT>JFIF
 110         <DD>JPEG File Interchange Format
 111
 112         <DT>JPEG
 113         <DD>Joint Photographic Experts Group
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 117
 118 <H2><A NAME="L">L</A></H2>
 119
 120 <DL>
 121
 122         <DT>LPD
 123         <DD>Line Printer Daemon
 124
 125 </DL>
 126
 127
 128 <H2><A NAME="M">M</A></H2>
 129
 130 <DL>
 131
 132         <DT>MIME
 133         <DD>Multimedia Internet Mail Exchange
 134
 135 </DL>
 136
 137
 138 <H2><A NAME="P">P</A></H2>
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 141
 142         <DT>parallel
 143         <DD>Sending or receiving data more than 1 bit at a time
 144
 145         <DT>PDF
 146         <DD>Portable Document Format
 147
 148         <DT>pipe
 149         <DD>A one-way communications channel between two programs
 150
 151         <DT>PNG
 152         <DD>Portable Network Graphics
 153
 154         <DT>PostScript
 155         <DD>A page description language that is most often used
 156         for printing
 157
 158         <DT>PPD
 159         <DD>PostScript Printer Description
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 163
 164 <H2><A NAME="S">S</A></H2>
 165
 166 <DL>
 167
 168         <DT>SCSI
 169         <DD>Small Computer Systems Interface
 170
 171         <DT>serial
 172         <DD>Sending or receiving data 1 bit at a time
 173
 174         <DT>SMB
 175         <DD>Server Message Block
 176
 177         <DT>socket
 178         <DD>A two-way network communications channel
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 182
 183 <H2><A NAME="T">T</A></H2>
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 185 <DL>
 186
 187         <DT>TCP
 188         <DD>Transmission Control Protocol
 189
 190         <DT>TFTP
 191         <DD>Trivial File Transfer Protocol
 192
 193         <DT>TIFF
 194         <DD>Tagged Image File Format
 195
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 197
 198
 199 <H2><A NAME="U">U</A></H2>
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 201 <DL>
 202
 203         <DT>UDP
 204         <DD>Unicast Datagram Protocol
 205
 206         <DT>Unicode
 207         <DD>A universal character set for all languages of the
 208         world
 209
 210         <DT>UTF-8
 211         <DD>Unicode Transfer Format 8-Bit
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