Glossary

Symbologysystem tray

system tray keyboard Indicators

task bartoolbar touchscreen displayTracert

Uniform Resource Locator (URL)

USBWeb ServerWindows CEXPING

A symbology is a protocol for arranging the bars and spaces that make up a particular kind of bar code. A bar code is made up of numbers, letters, and computer-recognized characters that can be represented in a combination of bars and spaces. There is not one standard bar code; there are currently over 400 bar code symbologies that serve different uses, industries, or geographic needs.

An area of the display screen located at the bottom, within the Task bar that displays status icons and symbols.

The System Tray Keyboard Indicators are located at the bottom of the display in the task bar and contain status icons and symbols indicating open features and active applets.

The Task bar at the bottom of the screen displays the start icon, an icon for the active pro- gram, an icon for the current character, the current time, and system icons for utilities loaded in memory, including the keyboard icon, which opens and closes the soft input

panel (SIP).

A control window that can contain buttons, combo boxes, and menu bars. Windows CE– based applications can also use a command bar rather than a separate menubar and tool- bar to efficiently use available screen space.

A graphical computer interface display screen that allows the user to enter and select items with a stylus.

Trace Route. A utility/command to determine TCP/IP packet routing.

The address of a resource on the Internet. URL syntax is in the form protocol://host/ localinfo, where protocol specifies the means of returning the object, such as HTTP or FTP. Host specifies the remote location where the object resides and localinfo is a string, often a file name, passed to the protocol handler at the remote location. Also called a Uniform Resource Identifier.

Universal Serial Bus is a protocol for connecting PCs with peripheral devices, including PDTs, PDAs, Falcon mobile computers, cameras, printers, mice, scanners, etc.

The web server can perform several different actions, including generating a web page containing statistics relating to performance of the mobile computer and creating an interface for interaction with the terminal to configure system behavior.

As per Microsoft, Windows CE combines an advanced real-time embedded operating system with the most powerful tools for rapidly creating the next generation of smart, con- nected, and small-footprint devices.

XPing is a protocol that sends a message to another computer and waits for acknowledg- ment, often used to check if another computer on a network is reachable.

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Falcon® 4400 Series with Windows® CE