User's Guide for MS-DOS Clients

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Glossary
sharing The process by which
resources are made available to local
area network users.
software The programs, routines, or
instructions written in a computer
language that instruct the computer to
perform one or more tasks.
source directory The directory that
contains the file or files you intend to
copy or move.
spooled queue A queue used with
printers that are configured with a
parallel interface. Spooled queues are
identified with devicenames LPT1
through LPT9. See also devicename,
printer queue, unspooled queue.
string Any contiguous set of alphabetic
and numeric characters that will be
treated as a unit.
subdirectory A directory within a
directory.
text box An area in a LAN Manager
Screen dialog box where you type
information. The text box may or may
not contain text when it appears.
text file A file containing only letters,
numbers, and symbols. A text file
contains no formatting information,
except possibly linefeeds and carriage
returns. A text file is an ASCII file.
text-only An ASCII file that contains
no formatting.
time-out A condition where an
expected character is not received in
time. When this condition occurs, the
software assumes that the data has been
lost and requests it to be resent.
title bar The area at the top of a
LAN Manager Screen dialog box where
its title appears.
touch-tone dialing A form of dialing
using multiple-tone signaling. The user
hears a series of tones (beeps) when
dialing. Push-button telephones usually
use touch-tone dialing.
trust See trust relationship.
trust relationship Links between
Windows NT Advanced Server domains
that enable pass-through authentication,
in which a user has only one user account
in one domain yet can access the entire
network. User accounts and global
groups defined in a trusted domain can
be given rights and resource permissions
in a trusting domain, even though those
accounts don’t exist in the trusting
domain’s database. A trusting domain
honors the logon authentications of a
trusted domain.
unspooled queue A queue used with
printers that are configured with a serial
interface. Unspooled queues are
identified with devicenames COM1
through COM9. LAN Manager for
UNIX Systems does not support
unspooled queues. See also devicename,
printer queue, spooled queue.
user Someone who uses the local area
network.