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9<H1 CLASS="title">Glossary</H1>
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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
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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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39 <DT>ESC/P
40 <DD>EPSON Standard Code for Printers
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45<H2><A NAME="F">F</A></H2>
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49 <DT>FTP
50 <DD>File Transfer Protocol
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55<H2><A NAME="G">G</A></H2>
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59 <DT>GIF
60 <DD>Graphics Interchange Format
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65<H2><A NAME="H">H</A></H2>
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4744bd90 69 <DT>HP-PCL
70 <DD>Hewlett-Packard Page Control Language
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72 <DT>HP-PJL
73 <DD>Hewlett-Packard Printer Job Language
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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
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85 <DT>IP
86 <DD>Internet Protocol
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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"
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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"
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96 <DT>IPP
97 <DD>Internet Printing Protocol
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99 <DT>ISO
100 <DD>International Standards Organization
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105<H2><A NAME="J">J</A></H2>
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109 <DT>JFIF
110 <DD>JPEG File Interchange Format
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112 <DT>JPEG
113 <DD>Joint Photographic Experts Group
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118<H2><A NAME="L">L</A></H2>
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122 <DT>LPD
123 <DD>Line Printer Daemon
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128<H2><A NAME="M">M</A></H2>
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132 <DT>MIME
133 <DD>Multimedia Internet Mail Exchange
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138<H2><A NAME="P">P</A></H2>
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142 <DT>parallel
143 <DD>Sending or receiving data more than 1 bit at a time
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145 <DT>PDF
146 <DD>Portable Document Format
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148 <DT>pipe
149 <DD>A one-way communications channel between two programs
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151 <DT>PNG
152 <DD>Portable Network Graphics
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154 <DT>PostScript
155 <DD>A page description language that is most often used
156 for printing
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158 <DT>PPD
159 <DD>PostScript Printer Description
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162 <DD>Printer Working Group
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4744bd90 171 <DT>serial
172 <DD>Sending or receiving data 1 bit at a time
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174 <DT>SMB
175 <DD>Server Message Block
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177 <DT>socket
178 <DD>A two-way network communications channel
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183<H2><A NAME="T">T</A></H2>
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187 <DT>TCP
188 <DD>Transmission Control Protocol
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190 <DT>TFTP
191 <DD>Trivial File Transfer Protocol
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193 <DT>TIFF
194 <DD>Tagged Image File Format
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203 <DT>UDP
204 <DD>Unicast Datagram Protocol
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206 <DT>Unicode
207 <DD>A universal character set for all languages of the
208 world
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210 <DT>UTF-8
211 <DD>Unicode Transfer Format 8-Bit
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