Glossary - 4 MC75 User Guide

Device Configuration Package. The Symbol Device Configuration Package provides the Product Reference Guide (PRG),
flash partitions, Terminal Configuration Manager (TCM) and the associated TCM scr ipts. With this package hex images
that represent flash partitions can be created and downloaded to the mobile com puter.
Discrete Code. A bar code or symbol in which the spaces between characters (intercharacter gap s) are not part of the code.
Discrete 2 of 5. A binary bar code symbology representing each character by a group of five bars, two of which are wide.
The location of wide bars in the group determines which character is encoded; spa ces are insignificant. Only numeric
characters (0 to 9) and START/STOP characters may be encoded.
DRAM. Dynamic random access memory.
DTE. See Data Terminal Equipment.
E
EAN. European Article Number. This European/International version of the UPC provides its own coding format and
symbology standards. Element dimensions are specified metrically. E AN is used primarily in retail.
Element. Generic term for a bar or space.
Encoded Area. Total linear dimension occupied by all characters of a code pattern, including start/stop characters and data.
ENQ (RS-232). ENQ software handshaking is also supported for the data sent to the host.
ESD. Electro-Static Discharge
EvDO, 1xEV-DO. A wireless radio broadband data standard adopted by many CDMA mobile phone service provide rs. It is
standardized by 3GPP2, as part of the CDMA2000 family of standards.
F
File Transfer Protocol (FTP). A TCP/IP application protocol governing file transfer via network or telepho ne lines. See
TCP/IP.
Flash Disk. An additional megabyte of non-volatile memory for storing appl ication and configuration files.
Flash Memory
Flash memory is nonvolatile, semi-permanent storage that can be electronic ally erased in the circuit and reprogrammed.
Series 9000 mobile computers use Flash memory to store the operating syste m (ROM-DOS), the terminal emulators,
and the Citrix ICA Client for DOS.
FTP
See File Transfer Protocol.