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FCNTL
— file control
URL
— Universal Resource Locator
XML
— Extensible Markup Language
XENIX
— Xenos Unix
SYN
— Synchronous
UNISTD.H
— Unix standard
FTP
— File Transfer Protocol
ANSI
— American National Standards Institute, Inc.
GETTY
— get tty
PS
— PostScript
EM
— emphasize
IRC
— Internet Relay Chat
XARGS
— extended arguments
XDPR
— X dump print
VALIGN
— vertical alignment
EXECVE
— execv with environment
QDAEMON
— queue daemon
STDIO.H
— Standard Input/Output Header
IP
— Internet Protocol
XMKMF
— X make makefile
VARARGS.H
— variable arguments
CR
— Carriage Return
AACUTE
— A with accent acute
HALIGN
— horizontal alignment
WWW
— World Wide Web
SMTP
— Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
ASCII
— American National Standard Code for Information Interchange
DEC
— Digital Equipment Corporation
SIGEMT
— signal: EMT instruction
UDP
— User Datagram Protocol (FDDI related)
HTTP
— Hypertext Transfer Protocol
STRCAT
— string concatenate
IBM
— International Business Machines Corporation
NFS
— Network File System
STRCSPN
— string character span
RFC
— Request For Comment
ACK
— Acknowledge (telecommunications; Cf. NAK)
STRSTR
— string string
PGP
— Pretty Good Privacy (encryption)
STRCHR
— string character
SLIP
— Serial Line Interface Protocol
PCLOSE
— process close
BSD
— Berkeley Software Distribution
DHCP
— Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol
FPRINTF
— file print formatted
PNG
— Portable Network Graphics (graphic file standard/extension)
SCSI
— Small Computer System Interface
C
— Center
RAID
— Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks
SIGABRT
— signal: abort
MIL
— Military
NET
— Network
DIV
— Division
TCP
— Transmission Control Protocol
ARP
— Address Resolution Protocol (ATM)
STRSPN
— string span
AELIG
— AE ligature
GIF
— Graphic Interchange Format
KBD
— Keyboard
EOT
— End Of Transmission
ICMP
— Internet Control Message Protocol
CRC
— Contrôle de Redondance Cyclique (French: Cyclic Redundancy Check)
YACC
— Yet Another Compiler-Compiler
MHS
— Message Handling System (electronic)
OSI
— Open Systems Interconnection (iso Standard)
SGML
— Standard Generalized Markup Language
NL
— New Line
CVS
— Concurrent Versions System
NIS
— Network Information System
RCS
— Revision Control System
STRCPY
— string copy
RFD
— Request For Discussion
PPP
— Point-to-Point Protocol
SNMP
— Simple Network Management Protocol (ATM)
DUP
— Duplicate
DCE
— Distributed Computing Environment
PERL
— Practical Extraction and Report Language
SIGURG
— signal: urgent I/O condition
RIP
— Routing Information Protocol
EXECLP
— execl with path search
CC
— C Compiler
EXECVP
— execv with path search
ETC
— Et Cetera
YP
— Yellow Pages
TCL
— Tool Command Language
CALLOC
— cleared allocation
ORG
— Organization
A
— Anchor
TTT
— Tic Tac Toe
STRTOK
— string tokenize
STRRCHR
— string character
LF
— Line Feed
NBSP
— Non-Breaking Space
RMDIR
— Remove Directory
EXECV
— execute
REALLOC
— re-allocate
ALT
— Alternative Lengthening of Telomeres
WC
— Word Count
LANG
— language
NIC
— Network Information Center
BRK
— Break
STRCMP
— string compare
HD
— Hard Disk
BOOTP
— Bootstrap Protocol
HP
— Hewlett Packard's
FSF
— Free Software Foundation
STDLIB.H
— standard library
BG
— Background
STTY
— set tty
PASSWD
— Password
CD
— Change Directory
EXEC
— Execute
ATOB
— ASCII to Binary
SYNC
— Synchronize
IMG
— Image
CAN
— Cancel
STRLEN
— string length
NNTP
— Network News Transfer Protocol
MV
— Move
TMP
— Temporary
USL
— UNIX System Laboratories
CAT
— Concatenate
CXX
— C File
PPTP
— Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol
C
— Close
LPQ
— Line Printer Queue
RCP
— Remote Copy Protocol
UNAME
— Unix name
IOCTL
— Input/Output Control
MAN
— Manual
STX
— Start of Text
CMP
— Compare
SIGILL
— signal: illegal instruction
SVR4
— System V Release 4 Unix
VAR
— Variable
U
— Underline
SIGALRM
— signal: alarm clock
ETX
— End of Text
STRPBRK
— string pointer break
SIGHUP
— signal: hangup
TTY
— Teletype Telex Machine
NTP
— Network Time Protocol
C
— Century
GREP
— Global Regular Expression Print
HREF
— Hypertext Reference
SO
— Shift-Out
W3C
— Word Wide Web Consortium
TAR
— Tape Archive
C
— Cell
BEL
— Bennett Environmental, Inc. (stock symbol; formerly the symbol for Bell Atlantic)
MWM
— Motif Window Manager
RLOGIN
— Remote Login in Unix
I
— Intermediate
SIGUSR1
— signal: user-defined signal 1
SCANF
— scan formatted
CDE
— Common Desktop Environment
BSH
— Bourne Shell
CTYPE.H
— character types
ERRNO
— error number
WM
— Window Manager
FS
— File Separator
JAVA
— [not an acronym] A general purpose, high-level, object-oriented, cross-platform programming language developed by Sun Microsystems
GOV
— Government
BS
— Backspace
AIX
— Advanced Interactive Executive (IBM)
XDM
— X Display Manager
DIR
— Directory
LS
— Listing
DNS
— Domain Name Server
TGZ
— tar gz
TFTP
— Trivial File Transfer Protocol (ATM)
SED
— Stream Editor
CI
— Check In
LIB
— Libra
COM
— Commercial
TH
— Table Header
C
— Cent
MULTICS
— Multiplexed Information and Computing System
CSH
— C Shell Programming
NAK
— Negative Acknowledge
TIFF
— Tag Image File Format
SCCS
— Source Code Control System
D
— Daemon
FF
— Form Feed
C
— Cessna
LS
— List-Serv
PDP
— Programmed Data Processor
SI
— Shift In
LPD
— Line Printer Daemon
DC1
— Device Control 1
FSCK
— File System Check
US
— Unit Separator
CTIME
— convert time
I
— Italic
ACIRC
— A with accent circonflexe
OSF
— Open Software Foundation
P
— Paragraph
OL
— Ordered List
C
— Centavo
C
— Centum
SIGTTIN
— signal: TTY input
ISATTY
— is a tty
ULIMIT
— user's limit
PROF
— Profile
EQN
— Equation
KSH
— Korn Shell Programming
PS
— Process Status
COMM
— Common
GS
— Group Separator
ZIP
— Ziv packer
DAEMON
— Disk And Execution Monitor
LPC
— Line Printer Control
ETB
— End of Transmission Block
EXECL
— execute list
FTOK
— file token
VI
— Visual
PUSHD
— push directory
IMAP2
— Interim Mail Access Protocol, Version 2
SIGTSTP
— Signal: terminal stop
CCEDIL
— C with cedille
NUL
— Null
PRINTF
— Print Formatted
V
— Version
LPRM
— Line Printer Remove
B
— Bold Text
SO
— Shared Object
UTMP
— temporary file with user information
ENQ
— Enquiry
SU
— Superuser
RS
— Record Separator
BASH
— Bourne Again Shell
ATOF
— ASCII to Float
PAX
— Portable Archive Exchange
SIGBUS
— signal: bus error
SSCANF
— string scan formatted
CHARGEN
— character generator
SINIX
— Siemens Unix
SZLIG
— sz ligature
AWK
— Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan
LORDER
— library order
AGRAVE
— A with accent grave
VT
— Video Terminal
SPAM
— not an acronym
POPEN
— process open
TCSH
— Tenex C Shell
PTY
— pseudo tty
DEL
— Delete
ARPA
— Advanced Research Project Agency's
LI
— List Item
ROFF
— run-off
SIGTTOU
— signal: TTY output
SPC
— Space
RC
— Run Commands (UNIX)
SIGTERM
— signal: terminate
BR
— Break
DLE
— Data Link Escape
DWARF
— Debug with Arbitrary Record Format
SUB
— Substitute
LPR
— Line Print
SAMP
— Sample
R
— Remote
ENV
— Environment
UUCP
— Unix-to-Unix communication protocol
HT
— Horizontal Tabulator
UCB
— University of California at Berkeley's
EVAL
— Evaluate
SCO
— Santa Cruz Operation, Inc.
SOH
— Start Of Header
TR
— Table Row
EDU
— Educational Disadvantage Unit
ELM
— Electronic Mail for UNIX
EDU
— Educational Development Unit
TSH
— Trusted shell
SRAND
— seed random number generator
RSH
— Remote Shell
FUSER
— file user
LINT
— not an acronym
PING
— not an acronym
SIGCHLD
— Signal: child
CB
— C-Beautifier
REC
— Recreation (ground)
DIFF
— Difference
TBL
— Table
VIM
— Vi Improved
TZ
— Time Zone
CHOWN
— Change Owner
NOHUP
— no hang-up
M4
— macro processor version 4
EDU
— Educational Institutions
A
— Archive
LS
— Language Specialist
SPRINTF
— string print formatted
BIFF
— not an acronym
ATOI
— ASCII to Integer
CAL
— Calendar
TNS
— Transparent Network Substrate
SRC
— Source
FG
— Foreground
TR
— Translate
DEV
— Devices
DU
— Disk Usage
UNIQ
— Unique
EXECLE
— execl with environment
LD
— Library Loader
A/UX
— Apple Unix
XON
— Transmission On
DVI
— device independant
SAR
— System Activity Report
AS
— Assembler
FMT
— Format
BIN
— binaries
CHDIR
— Change Directory
EDU
— Educational Organizations
FTW
— File Tree Walk
MPEG
— motion picture expert group
TT
— Teletype
LP
— Line Printer
XFD
— X Font Display
ESAC
— case
NOM
— Nomenclature
G
— GNU C Compiler
RANLIB
— random access library
GZ
— Gnu Zip
SIGFPE
— signal: floating point exception
TERMCAP
— TERMinal CAPability
STRTOL
— string to long
JSH
— job-control shell
RCP
— remote copy program
TEX
— Tau Epsilon Chi
AR
— Archiver
DIRNAME
— directory name
GLOB
— Global
SDB
— symbolic debugger
SIGSEGV
— signal: segmentation violation
DF
— Disk Free
U
— User
USR
— Unix Shared Resources
CRON
— Chronos
SUB
— Subscript
FSTAB
— File System Table
ISO
— not an acronym
STDARG.H
— standard arguments
EXPR
— Expression
RSH
— Restricted Shell
ADB
— advanced debugger
ED
— Editorial Division
SH
— Shell
STDDEF.H
— standard definitions
TERMINFO
— Terminal Information
MALLOC
— memory allocation
HPUX
— Hewlett-Packard Unix
SBIN
— superuser binaries
NM
— Names
USENET
— User's Network
CP
— Copy (Unix command)
MVDIR
— move directory
CHMOD
— Change Mode
RMT
— Remote Magnetic Tape
POVRAY
— Persistence of Vision Raytracer
PRE
— Preformatted
PCC
— Portable C Compiler
NN
— No News
L
— lex
IEEE
— Institute of Electrical and Electronical Engineers
ETH
— ?
SBRK
— segment break
FSCANF
— file scan formatted
CPIO
— Copy In and Out
EGREP
— extended grep
FGREP
— fixed-string grep
TELNET
— TErminal over NETwork
TK
— Tcl-based Toolkit
OCLOCK
— O shaped clock
LEX
— Lexical Analyser
DIFF3
— differences of three files
REGEX
— regular expression execute
RARP
— Reverse ARP
TEE
— T pipe fitting
IMAKE
— interface to make
XRDB
— X resource database
LN
— Link
REGCMP
— regular expression compile
MEM
— Memory
PINE
— PINE Is Nearly Elm(Pine Internet News and E-mail)
PR
— prepare
QSORT
— quick sort
ELF
— Extensible Linking Format
CHSH
— change shell
LD
— Loader Domain
SIGIO
— Signal: input/output
ED
— Editorial Department
PS1
— prompt string 1
MINIX
— miniature Unix
GNU
— GNU is not Unix
H
— Header
SPOOL
— Simultaneous Peripheral Operation OnLine
COM
— Commercial Operations Management
PICO
— PINE Composer
RMT
— Raw Magnetic Tape
MKFS
— Make File system
XWD
— X Window Dump
PBM
— Portable Bitmap
H
— Header file
TSORT
— topological sort
EMACS
— Escape Meta Alternate Control Shift
RZ
— Receive Z-modem
SIGWINCH
— Signal: window changed
EMACS
— Emacs makes any computer slow
AUML
— A with umlaut
WISH
— windowing shell
H1
— Header 1
MOTD
— motto of the day
FTIO
— fast tape input/output
S
— server-parsed HTML
ID
— Identity
MKNOD
— make node
ESC
— Escape
PRINTCAP
— printer capability
TCLSH
— Tcl shell
XWUD
— X window un-dump
DC
— Desk Calculator
Y
— yacc
RMAIL
— restricted mail
TROFF
— typesetter roff
LN
— Link number
VPRINTF
— varargs print formatted
SZ
— send Zmodem
ED
— Editorial Decision
Z
— ?
VT
— Vertical tabulator
LPP
— licensed program products
NAWK
— New AWK
OD
— Octal Dump
MIME
— Multi-Purpose Internet Mail Extensions
SUP
— Superscript
BC
— better calculator
BSEARCH
— binary search
O
— object code
BTOA
— Binary to ASCII
KMEM
— kernel memory
SIGSYS
— Signal: system call
SIGINT
— signal: interruption
CHGRP
— Change Group
JPEG
— joint pictures expert group
POPD
— pop directory
SIGCONT
— signal: continue
XPM
— X Pixel Map
PRS
— Print Revision Summary
SYSV
— System V
DBX
— Extended Debugger
C89
— 1989 C compiler
CO
— Check-Out
— archive
LS
— List Show
PWD
— print work directory
TD
— Table Data
FD
— file descriptors
SHAR
— SHell ARchive
SA
— stub archive
LINUX
— from Linus
EX
— extended editor
NOBR
— No break
UL
— Unsorted List
WALL
— write all
RMDEL
— remove delta
XBM
— X BitMap Format
RM
— Remove
TAB
— Tabulator
FC
— Fix Command
LD
— link editor
DD
— dictionary definition
LHARC
— Lempl-Huffman archiver
DT
— Dictionary Term
UMASK
— user's mask
XOFF
— Transmission Off
INODE
— Index Node
DL
— Define List
R
— Raw
NROFF
— new roff
LOGNAME
— log-in name
FD
— Floppy Diskette
XMP
— example
IFS
— internal field seperators
NL
— number lines
RFO
— request for opinions
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