AT&T IPC-1600 manual Dce

Glossary

DCE

device

diagnostic

DIP directory

directory entry, entry

directory hierarchy

directory tree disk

diskette

DTE

Data Circuit-terminating Equipment or Data Communication Equipment is equipment which converts Data Terminal Equipment (DTE) binary serial data to be used by a communications facility. DCE is common carrier equipment such as MODEMS, electronic switches, and computers.

1.A file [2] that is not a plain file or a directory, such as a tape drive or the null device; a special file.

2.A physical input/output unit.

A message printed at your terminal that identifies and isolates program errors.

See “Dual In-line Package.”

A file that comprises a catalog of filenames [2]; the organizing principle of the file system [2], a directory consists of entries which specify further files (sense 2, including directories), and constitutes a node of the directory tree.

1.An association of a name with an i-node number appearing as an element of a directory.

2.The name part of such an association.

The tree of all directories, in which each is reachable from the root via a chain of subdirectories.

Same as directory hierarchy.

A platter coated with magnetic material on which data can be stored.

A magnetic storage medium which is smaller and more flexible than a hard disk.

Data Terminal Equipment is equipment comprising the data source, data sink, or both data source and sink that provides for the communication control function (protocol). For

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