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Glossary

stations. A diskless workstation boots from its partner workstation. See also disked workstation, node, partner node, workstation.

double click To press and release a mouse button twice in rapid succession.

drag To press and hold down a mouse button while moving the mouse (and the pointer on the screen). See also drop.

drive See CD-ROM drive, DDS tape drive, floppy drive, hard disk drive.

drop To release an icon that has been “dragged” to a new position. See also drag.

EISA (Extended Industry Standard Architecture) An industry standard bus architecture based on and compatible with that used by IBM in their AT series computers.

environment The conditions under which your commands are executed. These conditions include your worksta- tion characteristics, home directory, and default search paths. See also environ- ment variables.

environment variables The set of de- fined shell variables (some of which are

PATH, TERM, SHELL, EXINIT, HOME) that define the conditions under which your commands are executed. These conditions include your worksta- tion characteristics, home directory, and default search paths. See also environ- ment.

ETHERNET The LAN developed jointly by Digital Equipment Corpora- tion, Intel, and Xerox Corporation, upon which the IEEE 802.3 network is based.

fast, differential SCSI An 8-bit wide bus with high-power receivers and driv- ers, which allows a cable length of up to 25 meters and a speed of up to 10 MB per second. See also fast-wide differential SCSI, single-ended standard SCSI,

Small Computer System Interface, ul- tra, wide, single-ended SCSI.

fast-wide differential SCSI A 16-bit wide bus with high-power receivers and drivers, which allows a cable length of up to 25 meters and a speed of up to 20 MB per second. See also fast, differen- tial SCSI, single-ended standard SC- SI, Small Computer System Interface, ultra, wide, single-ended SCSI.

file The basic named unit of data stored on disk. See also directory, filename.

file access permissions The access rights given to a particular file or directo- ry. Every file and directory has a set of access permissions, a code that deter- mines whether a process can perform a requested operation on the file (such as opening the file or writing to it). See also access permissions.

File Manager The HP VUE application that allows you to manage your files and directories, and to set viewing preferenc- es.

filename The name given to a particular file. See also absolute pathname, file, pathname.

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