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9<H1 CLASS="title">Glossary</H1>
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11<H2><A NAME="A">A</A></H2>
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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-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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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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161	<DT>PWG
162	<DD>Printer Working Group
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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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199<H2><A NAME="U">U</A></H2>
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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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