HP Visualize J5000 - Workstation Owner's Manual page 196

Glossary
its button held down, in order to
position an icon or other object
that has been "dragged" to a new
position See also Drag and Drop.
E
EEPROM. Electronically erasable
read-only memory. A non-volatile
storage device using a technique
similar to the floating gates in
EPROMs but with the capability to
discharge the floating gate
electrically. Usually bytes or words
can be erased and reprogrammed
individually during system
operations.
Environment The conditions in
which your commands or programs
are executed. These conditions
include your workstation
characteristics, home directory,
and default search paths See also
Environment variables.
Environment variables The set
of defined shell variables (some of
which are PATH, TERM, SHELL,
EXINIT, and HOME) that define the
conditions in which, or values with
which, your commands are
executed. These conditions and
values include your workstation
characteristics, home directory,
and default search paths See also
Environment.
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Ethernet The LAN developed
jointly by Digital Equipment
Corporation, Intel, and Xerox
Corporation, upon which the IEEE
802.3 network is based.
F
Fast-wide Low-Voltage
Differential SCSI A 16-bit-wide
bus with high-power receivers and
drivers, which allows a cable
length of up to 25 meters and a
speed of up to 20 MB per second
See also Ultra Narrow
Single-Ended SCSI, Small
Computer System Interface.
File The basic named unit of data
stored on disk See also Directory,
Filename.
File access permissions The
access rights given to a particular
file or directory. Every file and
directory has a set of access
permissions, a code that
determines whether a process can
perform a requested operation on
the file (such as opening the file or
writing to it) See also Access
permissions.
File Manager The HP CDE
application that allows you to