1<HTML> 2<!-- SECTION: Getting Started --> 3<HEAD> 4 <TITLE>Glossary</TITLE> 5 <LINK REL="STYLESHEET" TYPE="text/css" HREF="/cups-printable.css"> 6</HEAD> 7<BODY> 8 9<H1 CLASS="title">Glossary</H1> 10 11<H2><A NAME="A">A</A></H2> 12 13<DL> 14 15 <DT>ASCII 16 <DD>American Standard Code for Information Interchange 17 18</DL> 19 20 21<H2><A NAME="C">C</A></H2> 22 23<DL> 24 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 31 32</DL> 33 34 35<H2><A NAME="E">E</A></H2> 36 37<DL> 38 39 <DT>ESC/P 40 <DD>EPSON Standard Code for Printers 41 42</DL> 43 44 45<H2><A NAME="F">F</A></H2> 46 47<DL> 48 49 <DT>FTP 50 <DD>File Transfer Protocol 51 52</DL> 53 54 55<H2><A NAME="G">G</A></H2> 56 57<DL> 58 59 <DT>GIF 60 <DD>Graphics Interchange Format 61 62</DL> 63 64 65<H2><A NAME="H">H</A></H2> 66 67<DL> 68 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 77 78</DL> 79 80 81<H2><A NAME="I">I</A></H2> 82 83<DL> 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 104 105</DL> 106 107 108<H2><A NAME="J">J</A></H2> 109 110<DL> 111 112 <DT>JFIF 113 <DD>JPEG File Interchange Format 114 115 <DT>JPEG 116 <DD>Joint Photographic Experts Group 117 118</DL> 119 120 121<H2><A NAME="L">L</A></H2> 122 123<DL> 124 125 <DT>LPD 126 <DD>Line Printer Daemon 127 128</DL> 129 130 131<H2><A NAME="M">M</A></H2> 132 133<DL> 134 135 <DT>MIME 136 <DD>Multimedia Internet Mail Exchange 137 138</DL> 139 140 141<H2><A NAME="P">P</A></H2> 142 143<DL> 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 163 164</DL> 165 166 167<H2><A NAME="S">S</A></H2> 168 169<DL> 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 182 183</DL> 184 185 186<H2><A NAME="T">T</A></H2> 187 188<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 198 199</DL> 200 201 202<H2><A NAME="U">U</A></H2> 203 204<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 215 216</DL> 217 218</BODY> 219</HTML> 220