HP-Certified HP-UX System Administration

Appendix E. GLOSSARY

A complete list of glossary items can be obtained by using the man glossary command on HP-UX.

Glossary

. (dot)

A special file name that refers to the current directory.

.. (dot-dot)

A special file name that refers to the parent directory.

Absolute Path Name

A path name beginning with a slash (/).

Access Mode

A form of access permitted to a file.

Address Space

The range of memory locations to which a process can refer.

Archive

A file comprised of the contents of other files, such as the tar archive.

ASCII

An acronym for American Standard Code for Information Interchange.

Background Process

Any process that gives the shell prompt back to the user.

Backup

The process of making a copy of all or part of the file system in order to preserve it, in ...