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Glossary

“command interpreter.” See also	SPA Soft Physical Address. See
command interpreter.	also soft physical address.

shell command An instruction you give the system to execute a utility program or shell script

See also shell script, utility program.

shell script A file that contains commands that the system can interpret and run in a shell.

shutdown The process of taking the system from multi-user state to system administration state.

slider One of the components of a scroll bar. The slider is the object that is dragged along the scroll area to cause the window’s contents to move, exposing previously hidden content.

Small Computer System Interface (SCSI) An IEEE standard for interfacing a computer to multiple, disparate high-speed peripherals such as a disk drive, a CD-ROM drive, or a scanner, etc., singly or in combination See also Ultra2 Wide Low-Voltage Differential SCSI.

soft physical address This is a location in system memory associated with the DIMM cards.

standalone A workstation that is not part of a cluster See also cluster.

Style Manager The HP CDE application that provides the ability to customize various user-interface aspects of your system, including colors, fonts, keyboard and mouse attributes, session start-up and termination behavior, and access to other workstations.

subdirectory A directory that is located in, or anywhere on a path below, another directory. The directory above the subdirectory is called the “parent directory.” A subdirectory is also referred to as a “child directory See also parent directory.

superuser A user with permission to enter any directory and make changes to files and programs that typical users are not allowed to change. To “become superuser” or “become root” means to let the system know that you are now

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