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   1 <H1 TYPE="A" VALUE="1">Glossary</H1>
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   3 <H2>Terms</H2>
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   5 <DL>
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   7         <DT>C
   8         <DD>A computer language.
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  10         <DT>parallel
  11         <DD>Sending or receiving data more than 1 bit at a time.
  12
  13         <DT>pipe
  14         <DD>A one-way communications channel between two programs.
  15
  16         <DT>serial
  17         <DD>Sending or receiving data 1 bit at a time.
  18
  19         <DT>socket
  20         <DD>A two-way network communications channel.
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  22 </DL>
  23
  24 <H2>Acronyms</H2>
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  26 <DL>
  27
  28         <DT>ASCII
  29         <DD>American Standard Code for Information Interchange
  30
  31         <DT>CUPS
  32         <DD>Common UNIX Printing System
  33
  34         <DT>ESC/P
  35         <DD>EPSON Standard Code for Printers
  36
  37         <DT>FTP
  38         <DD>File Transfer Protocol
  39
  40         <DT>HP-GL
  41         <DD>Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language
  42
  43         <DT>HP-PCL
  44         <DD>Hewlett-Packard Page Control Language
  45
  46         <DT>HP-PJL
  47         <DD>Hewlett-Packard Printer Job Language
  48
  49         <DT>IETF
  50         <DD>Internet Engineering Task Force
  51
  52         <DT>IPP
  53         <DD>Internet Printing Protocol
  54
  55         <DT>ISO
  56         <DD>International Standards Organization
  57
  58         <DT>LPD
  59         <DD>Line Printer Daemon
  60
  61         <DT>MIME
  62         <DD>Multimedia Internet Mail Exchange
  63
  64         <DT>PPD
  65         <DD>PostScript Printer Description
  66
  67         <DT>SMB
  68         <DD>Server Message Block
  69
  70         <DT>TFTP
  71         <DD>Trivial File Transfer Protocol
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  73 </DL>