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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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69	<DT>HP-GL
70	<DD>Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language
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72	<DT>HP-PCL
73	<DD>Hewlett-Packard Page Control Language
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75	<DT>HP-PJL
76	<DD>Hewlett-Packard Printer Job Language
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81<H2><A NAME="I">I</A></H2>
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85	<DT>IETF
86	<DD>Internet Engineering Task Force
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88	<DT>IP
89	<DD>Internet Protocol
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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"
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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"
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99	<DT>IPP
100	<DD>Internet Printing Protocol
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102	<DT>ISO
103	<DD>International Standards Organization
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108<H2><A NAME="J">J</A></H2>
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112	<DT>JFIF
113	<DD>JPEG File Interchange Format
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115	<DT>JPEG
116	<DD>Joint Photographic Experts Group
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121<H2><A NAME="L">L</A></H2>
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125	<DT>LPD
126	<DD>Line Printer Daemon
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131<H2><A NAME="M">M</A></H2>
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135	<DT>MIME
136	<DD>Multimedia Internet Mail Exchange
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141<H2><A NAME="P">P</A></H2>
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145	<DT>parallel
146	<DD>Sending or receiving data more than 1 bit at a time
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148	<DT>PDF
149	<DD>Portable Document Format
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151	<DT>pipe
152	<DD>A one-way communications channel between two programs
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154	<DT>PNG
155	<DD>Portable Network Graphics
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157	<DT>PostScript
158	<DD>A page description language that is most often used
159	for printing
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161	<DT>PPD
162	<DD>PostScript Printer Description
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167<H2><A NAME="S">S</A></H2>
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171	<DT>SCSI
172	<DD>Small Computer Systems Interface
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174	<DT>serial
175	<DD>Sending or receiving data 1 bit at a time
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177	<DT>SMB
178	<DD>Server Message Block
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180	<DT>socket
181	<DD>A two-way network communications channel
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186<H2><A NAME="T">T</A></H2>
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190	<DT>TCP
191	<DD>Transmission Control Protocol
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193	<DT>TFTP
194	<DD>Trivial File Transfer Protocol
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196	<DT>TIFF
197	<DD>Tagged Image File Format
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202<H2><A NAME="U">U</A></H2>
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206	<DT>UDP
207	<DD>Unicast Datagram Protocol
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209	<DT>Unicode
210	<DD>A universal character set for all languages of the
211	world
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213	<DT>UTF-8
214	<DD>Unicode Transfer Format 8-Bit
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