Glossary Glossary-5
software package
A collection of files and directories required for a software product. A complete
software product can be made up of several packages. A collection of packages
required for a software product is called a software cluster.
software patch
A collection of files and directories that fix a set of problems associated with a
software product. A patch can be installed on a system only if the software
product being fixed is also installed.
URL
Uniform Resource Locator. The addressing system used by clients to request
web documents from servers. The format of a URL is
[protocol:][//system[:port]]/[document] (for example, http://www.sun.com/).
user name
The name that the computer uses to identify a particular user. It is a text string
of up to eight characters composed of letters (a-z and A-Z), digits (0-9),
hyphens (-), and underscores (_). The first character must be a letter.
WWW
This stands for World Wide Web. It is a collection of systems on the Internet
that contain hypertext documents that are accessible using HTTP and are
displayed as “Web pages” by “Web servers”.
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