Telnet Connect User's Guide

APPENDIX A

Glossary

ANSI   American National Standards Institute.

Check Screen   An action that action signals the component that execution must not proceed until the screen is in a particular state, subject to a user-specified timeout value.

Dumb Terminal   A computer terminal that has no onboard CPU, memory, or storage devices, beyond the minimum necessary to communicate with a more powerful host machine.

ECMAScript   Any JavaScript-like language that conforms to European Computer Manufacturers Association standard No. 262.

Native Environment Pane    A pane in the Telnet Component Editor that provides an emulation of an actual Telnet terminal session.

Screen Object   A special DOM in the Telnet (and 5250) component editor windows representing the current Telnet screen display as an XML document.

Send Buffer   An action that appears in the Action Model whenever a there is map to the screen or keys entered on the screen.

TCP/IP   Abbreviation for Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol

Telnet   A specification (RFC854) for a communications protocol (TCP/IP) used for emulating a terminal on ANSI standard systems.

Type-ahead   A technique for preloading a keyboard buffer with more than one screen's worth of commands.

Terminal Emulation   A technique for imitating the runtime behavior of a "dumb terminal" on a desktop (or other) machine.

VT100   VAX Terminal, model 100. Also refers to the particular ANSI encoding used by this class of terminal.



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