Motorola SABER I User Manual page 98

CURSOR:
The flashing marker'used
to
indicate
the cunent
position on the
display screen.
DATABASE:
An organized lile containing records on related data,
DATA
ENTRY:
Formatted display
with highlighted fields lor
entering codeplug
SCREEN: parameter
(data). A
prompt
lorthe
type of required
user
action, either data selection trom a
list or direct keyboard entry, is
indicated
inthe
top right seaion
of the screen.
DECREMENT:
To
decrease
a
value.
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DEFAULTS:
Standard
dataorparametervalues.
DEFAULT
DRIVE:
The disk drive that the Radio Service Softrrare will use to GET data
from or SAVE data
to.
You
can change the default
ddve
lrcm the
PROGRAMMER CONFIGURATION menu.
DE-KEY:
Turn the
transmineroft (release push-to-talk).
DIRECTOBY:
A catalog ol liles on a
disk.
To
view the catalog ol tiles on
a
disk
on drive A:, enterthe
DOS
Direaory command:
DIR
A:
[Ente{
DISK
DRIVE:
The device that reads and programs information on a permanent
storage medium;
ie.
floppy disks or hald disks.
DISKETTE:
An
alterable permanenl magnetic storage medium for
.
-microcomputers..-Also-called-a-disk,-floppy
disk,-or-mini-diskette.-.
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r
DOS:
An
acronym
for
Disk Operating System.
DOS
is a group ol
programs
inat controttne way
tneiomputer
interlaces
with
o
t ir e r
programs, tells the computer how
to
use, read, and return
inlormation to and lrom application programs, and how to organize
and use the inlormation on disks.
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DOS:
DOS
or
Data Operated Squelch, is the radios ability
to
mute the
audio while examining the
MDC data packet that precedes many
transmissions. This eliminates the miscellaneous noise at the
beginning
of an
incoming transmission that would othenrise be
heard.
DPL:
An acronym
lor
Digitat Private
Line.
A channelthat has DPL
on
the
receive lrequency will require both
the presence of
canier as well
as the conect DPL code belore it will unmute.
Also,
il you
have
DPL on the transmit frequency, all transmissions on that channel
will
be.modulated
at a sub-audible tevet with the
DPL code.
Modulation
wi!! be
continuous.
DRIVE:
See disk drive.
DTMF:
An
acronym
lor
Dual
Tone Mutti-frequency. DTMF is a spnalling
system used by the Bell Telephone System.
DVP:
An acronym for Digital Voice Protection. DVP is one of several
encryptlon algorithms.
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