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Glossary
A
ACK
An ASCII control character used to acknowledge the reception and
acceptance of a transmission block.
address
1) A character string that uniquely identifies a memory location. 2)
A character string that uniquely identifies the physical location of an
input or output circuit.
AIM
Automatic Identification Manufacturers.
alphanumeric
The character set containing letters, numbers, punctuation marks and
symbols.
ANSI
American National Standard Institute. An organization that develops
and publishes voluntary industry standards in the United States.
application
A use to which something is put, or how it is used.
APM Protocol
Acronym for Application Protocol Messages. A protocol used by
system integrators who want to design system applications without
AdaptaScan Software.
ASCII
American Standards Code for Information Interchange. It is a 7-bit
code with an optional parity bit used to represent alphanumerics,
punctuation marks, and control-code characters.
autodiscrimination
The ability of a bar code reader to recognize and correctly decode
more than one symbology.
autoload
The process of automatically transferring scanned character strings
and the symbology type into a match entry value.
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