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Appendix C.

Glossary

ABA. Abbreviation for ‘American Bankers Association’. The Omni

3200 card reader can read ABA information stored on track 2 of a

card’s magnetic stripe.

Access Code. A code number dialed to gain access to a telephone

line, such as dialing the number ‘9’ to reach an outside line.

ACK. Short for ‘positive acknowledgment’. An ACK signal confirms

that the previous messages sent from one device to another were

received correctly. See also ‘Control Characters’.

Application ID. An alphanumeric code that identifies an application

program downloaded to a terminal from a download computer. For

ZONTALK application downloads, the application ID is stored in the

CONFIG.SYS record which begins with the *ZA. key. An Omni

3200 application ID can be up to 21 characters long.

Application Program. The ordered set of programmed instructions

by which a computer performs an intended task or series of tasks.

Application Prompt. The information shown on the terminal’s

display panel when power is applied to the terminal, assuming that an

application program has already been downloaded into the terminal’s

memory. The application prompt often contains the date and time, but

it can consist of anything the programmer chooses for that purpose.

ASCII. Abbreviation for ‘American Standard Code for Information

Interchange’. A 7-bit code (with no parity bit) that provides a total of

128 bit patterns. ASCII codes are widely used for information

interchange in data processing and communication systems.

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