The Online World resources handbook
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Frequently used terms http://home.eunet.no/~presno/bok/v4.html<br />
Protocol<br />
A formal description of message formats and the rules two computers must follow to<br />
exchange messages. Protocols can describe low level details of machine to machine<br />
interface (for example, the order in which bits and bytes are sent across the wire), or<br />
high level exchanges between allocation programs (for example, the way in which two<br />
programs transfer a file across the Internet).<br />
PTT<br />
Postal Telegraph and Telephone. A telephone service provider, often a monopoly, in a<br />
particular country.<br />
Public domain<br />
Free from copyrights or patents, these programs, texts or files may be used by the public<br />
without any payments to the creators.<br />
Qalam<br />
is an Arabic Latin Arabic transliteration system between Arabic script languages and the<br />
Latin script embodied in the ASCII character set. <strong>The</strong> Qalam system is designed to<br />
transliterate Arabic script languages for computer mediated communication by<br />
individuals literate in those languages.<br />
QWK<br />
Qwikmail. A n offline message file format for bulletin boards offering mail through a<br />
QMail Door. <strong>The</strong> .QWK door and file format has been used to develop entire BBS<br />
networks (example: ILINK.)<br />
<strong>The</strong>re are QWK format mail readers for Apple, Amiga, Atari, C64/C128,<br />
CoCo/OS9, CP/M, Macintosh, MS DOS, OS/2, Unix, Windows and Windows NT.<br />
Real time<br />
Having the appearance of immediate action. For example, typing messages that appear<br />
on another's monitor almost instantly.<br />
Router<br />
A special purpose computer (or software package) that handles the connection between<br />
two or more networks. Routers spend all their time looking at the destination addresses<br />
of the packets passing through them, and deciding which route to send them on.<br />
Routing<br />
<strong>The</strong> process of delivering a message across a network or networks via the most proper<br />
path. While simple in principle, routing is a specialized, complex science, influenced by<br />
a plethora of factors. <strong>The</strong> more networks are interconnected, the more esoteric routing is<br />
set to become.<br />
Script files<br />
A set of commands that enable a communications program to execute a given set of<br />
tasks automatically (macro commands).<br />
Search engines<br />
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