Appendix B: Acronyms

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This appendix provides a list of the terms and acronyms used within this book along with their meaning.

ACK

Acknowledge

ALGOL

ALGOrithmic Language

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

API

Application Program Interface

ARP

Address Resolution Protocol

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

BASIC

Beginners All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code

BBC

British Broadcasting Company

BCPL

Basic Combined Programming Language

BSD

Berkeley Source Distribution

CGI

Common Gateway Interface

CIDR

Classless Inter-Domain Routing

CPAN

Comprehensive Perl Archive Network

CWI

Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica

DF

Don’t Fragment

DNS

Domain Name System

EOF

End of File

FAQ

Frequently Asked Questions

FIFO

First In, First Out

FQDN

Fully Qualified Domain Name

FTP

File Transfer Protocol

GCC

GNU C Compiler

GNU

GNU’s Not Unix

HBO

Host Byte Order

HTML

HyperText Markup Language

htonl

Host To Network Long

htons

Host To Network Short

HTTP

HyperText Transport Protocol

ICMP

Internet Control Message Protocol

IDE

Integrated Development Environment

IDLE

Integrated DeveLopment Environment

IEC

International Electrotechnical Commission

IEEE

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

IGMP

Internet Group Management Protocol

I/O

Input/Output

IPC

InterProcess Communication

IP

Internet Protocol

IPv4

Internet Protocol Version 4

IPv6

Internet Protocol Version 6

ISO

International Standards Organization

JDK

Java Development Kit

JRE

Java Runtime Environment

JVM

Java Virtual Machine

KB

KiloByte

LAN

Local Area Network

MAC

Medium Access Control

MB

MegaByte

MIT

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

MSS

Maximum Segment Size

MTU

Maximum Transfer Unit

NAT

Network Address Translation

NBO

Network Byte Order

ntohl

Network To Host Long

ntohs

Network To Host Short

OOB

Out-of-Band

PDU

Protocol Data Unit

PERL

Practical Extraction and Report Language

PEP

Python Enhancement Proposal

POP3

Post Office Protocol, Version 3

PSF

Python Software Foundation

RAM

Random Access Memory

RDP

Reliable Datagram Protocol

RDM

Reliably Delivered Messages

RDMA

Remote Direct Memory Access

RFC

Request for Comments

RMI

Remote Method Invocation

RTT

Round Trip Time

SCTP

Stream Control Transmission Protocol

SED

Stream Editor

SMTP

Simple Mail Transport Protocol

STD

Standard

SYN

Synchronize

TCL

Tool Command Language

TCP

Transmission Control Protocol

TOS

Type of Service

TTL

Time to Live

UART

Universal Asynchronous Receiver/Transmitter

UDP

Universal Datagram Protocol

URL

Uniform Resource Locator

USENET

User’s Network

WAN

Wide Area Network



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BSD Sockets Programming from a Multi-Language Perspective
Network Programming for Microsoft Windows , Second Edition (Microsoft Programming Series)
ISBN: 1584502681
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2003
Pages: 225
Authors: Jim Ohlund

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