Glossary
Terms
- C
- A computer language.
- parallel
- Sending or receiving data more than 1 bit at a time.
- pipe
- A one-way communications channel between two programs.
- serial
- Sending or receiving data 1 bit at a time.
- socket
- A two-way network communications channel.
Acronyms
- ASCII
- American Standard Code for Information Interchange
- CUPS
- Common UNIX Printing System
- ESC/P
- EPSON Standard Code for Printers
- FTP
- File Transfer Protocol
- HP-GL
- Hewlett-Packard Graphics Language
- HP-PCL
- Hewlett-Packard Page Control Language
- HP-PJL
- Hewlett-Packard Printer Job Language
- IETF
- Internet Engineering Task Force
- IPP
- Internet Printing Protocol
- ISO
- International Standards Organization
- LPD
- Line Printer Daemon
- MIME
- Multimedia Internet Mail Exchange
- PPD
- PostScript Printer Description
- SMB
- Server Message Block
- TFTP
- Trivial File Transfer Protocol