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Glossary
directory
A table of iden
tiers and references (such as le names) that refer
to corresp onding les and items of data. Used in a t
ypical HP-UX
organizational structure to provide an organizational and logical iden
tity for
a given group of les and directories.
EISA
Extended Industry Standard Architecture.
EISA is an extension of ISA (Industry Standard Arc
hitecture) to 32 bits.
environment
The set of dened shell v
ariables (some of which are PATH, TERM,
SHELL, HOME) that dene the conditions under whichyour commands
run. These conditions can include your terminal characteristics, home
directory, and default search path.
le access p ermissions
File name characteristics (including
read, write
, and
execute
) which
determine whether a pro cess can perform a requested op eration on the le
(such as op ening a le for writing). Access p ermissions can b e c
hanged by
the
chmod
(1) command.
leset
A logically-dened, named set of les on an update or installation tape.
le system
The organization of les on a given storage device, p ossibly including
hierarchical directories.
$HOME
The value of the environmentvariable representing the
home directory
.
home directory
The directory name given by the value of the shell variable HOME. This is
the directory where the user starts after logging in, typically
/users/
login
,
where
login
is your login name.
host name
Refers to a string which uniquely identies a system in a network. There
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