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In general, information is sent out as strings
of
characters
in the
standard
ASCII format. The American
Standard
Code
for Information Interchange (ASCII)
is
the standard informa-
tion coding format used
throughout
the communications
industry. A listing
of
the
standard
ASCII codes appears in
Appendix
A.
When communicating in this manner, the Mac
may speak to nearly
any
other computer.
THE
MACTERMINAL
DOCUMENT
Before continuing
our
discussion
of
MacTerminal, let's
access the application. Locate the diskette which contains the
desired application
and
insert it into the Mac. Open the disk's
icon
and
find the Mac Terminal applications icon as depicted in
figure 8.3.
~
Mac
Terminal
Figure 8.3.
The
MacTerminal icon
Open the icon. After
about
25
seconds, the display
appears as shown in figure 8.4. The display includes the items
which should be quite familiar
to
you by now:
• Menu bar
• Close box
• Title bar
• Scroll bar
• Size box
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