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Appendix D Glossary
PocketPro 100S Administrator’s Guide -- Document #40165-110 Rev. A D-15
PPD
See Printer Description File.
PPL
An ANSI-standard page description language originally used in the DEC LN03 laser printer.
Printcap File
The file on a UNIX host computer (usually in the /etc directory) that contains a list of printers.
PRINTCON
A NetWare utility program for defining the characteristics of the print job.
PRINTDEF
A NetWare utility program for defining the characteristics of a printer or form. These characteristics are
associated with the print job via the PRINTCON utility.
Printer Description File
A file used in PostScript printing that describes the features available on the printer. Commonly used with Apple
Macintosh computers (also called a PPD).
Print Server
(1) A device that allows multiple host computers to share a printer over a local area network. (2) In Novell
NetWare, a logical device that services print queues on a file server.
Protocol
A method of sending and receiving data between two or more nodes on a network, and insuring that the data is
received without errors.
Queue
A region on the computer or file server's disk where files are temporarily stored before printing. Since the queue
can store multiple files, it effectively allows users to send their jobs to the printer even if the printer is busy (a
procedure called spooling).