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A string of environment information, such as a drive, path, or filename, associated with a symbolic name. The System option in Control Panel or the Set command from the command prompt can be used to define environment variables.
A local area network protocol. Ethernet supports data transfer rates of 10 Mbps and uses a bus topology and thick or thin coaxial, fiber-optic, or twisted-pair cabling. A newer version of Ethernet called Fast Ethernet supports data transfer rates of 100 Mbps, and an even newer version, Gigabit Ethernet, supports data transfer rates of 1000 Mbps.
A nonbootable portion of a hard disk that can be subdivided into logical drives. There can be only a single extended partition per hard disk.
An extension to the Point-to-Point Protocol (PPP) that allows the use of arbitrary authentication methods for validating a PPP connection.
A text format derived from the Standard General Markup Language (SGML). It allows the flexible development of user-defined document types and provides a non-proprietary, persistent, and verifiable file format for the storage and transmission of text and data both on and off the Web.
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