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<primary>Glossary</primary>
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<para>This chapter is intended to explain the various words which
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have been used throughout the &krusader;
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documentation. If you believe some acronyms or terms are missing,
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please do not hesitate to contact the &krusader;
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documentation team.</para>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/">wikipedia.org</ulink> the
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free encyclopedia that anyone can edit.</para>
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<glossentry id="gloss-acl">
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<acronym>ACL</acronym>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Access_control_list">
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Access Control List</ulink>; a concept in computer security
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used to enforce privilege separation. It is a means of
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determining the appropriate access rights to a given object
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depending on certain aspects of the process that is making
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<glossentry id="gloss-bsd">
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<acronym>BSD</acronym>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bsd">Berkeley
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Software Distribution</ulink>; refers to any of several free
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&UNIX;-compatible operating systems, derived from
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<acronym>BSD</acronym>&UNIX;.</para>
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<glossentry id="gloss-cvs">
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<acronym>CVS</acronym>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concurrent_Versions_System">
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Concurrent Versions System</ulink>; an important component of
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Source Configuration Management (SCM). By using it,
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developers can record the history of source files and
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<glossentry id="gloss-deb">
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<acronym>DEB</acronym>
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<para>This is a binary file format that is used by
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debian">
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<trademark class="registered">Debian</trademark></ulink> and <trademark class="registered">Debian</trademark>-based
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distributions. It is a suffix of a installation file
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specifically built for these distributions; e.g.
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<filename>krusader_1.70.1-1_amd64.deb</filename>. Simply
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described it is a special archive containing all the
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program files and their proposed location on the
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<glossentry id="glos-dcop">
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<acronym>DCOP</acronym>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dcop">Desktop
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Communication Protocol</ulink>; the interprocess
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communication protocol used by &kde; desktop
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environment. It enables various &kde; applications
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to communicate with each other.</para>
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<glossentry id="glos-faq">
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<acronym>FAQ</acronym>
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<link linkend="faq">Frequently Asked Questions</link>; a
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document where questions that arise many times are answered.
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If you have a question to the developers of
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&krusader;, you should always have a look at the
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<link linkend="faq">FAQ</link> first.</para>
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<glossentry id="glos-ftp">
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<glossterm>&FTP;</glossterm>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File_Transfer_Protocol">
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File Transfer Protocol</ulink>; it is an Internet protocol
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that allows you to retrieve files from so-called
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&FTP; servers.</para>
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<glossentry id="gloss-gpl">
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<acronym>GPL</acronym>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gpl">GNU General
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Public License</ulink>; a software license created by the
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<ulink url="http://www.fsf.org/">Free Software
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Foundation</ulink> defining the terms for releasing free
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<glossentry id="gloss-gui">
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<glossterm>&GUI;</glossterm>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graphical_user_interface">
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Graphical User Interface</ulink>.</para>
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<glossentry id="gloss-iso">
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<acronym>ISO</acronym>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_image">ISO
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image</ulink> (.iso) is an informal term for a disk image of
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an ISO 9660 file system. More loosely, it refers to any
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optical disk image, even a UDF image.</para>
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<glossentry id="gloss-kde">
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<glossterm>&kde;</glossterm>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kde">K Desktop
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Environment</ulink>; a project to develop a free graphical
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desktop environment for &UNIX; compatible
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<glossentry id="gloss-keybinding">
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<glossterm>Key Binding</glossterm>
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<para>All features of &krusader; are available
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through the menubar, but you can also bind (link) a certain
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key combination to that function. You will find, however,
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<link linkend="keyboard-commands">keyboard</link> is remakably
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faster than using the menubar or
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<link linkend="gloss-gui">GUI</link>.
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<link linkend="keyboard-commands">Keyboard usage</link> is an
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<link linkend="gloss-ofm">Orthodox File Managers</link>.
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&krusader; comes with several predefined
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<link linkend="key_bindings">Key-Bindings</link>.</para>
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<glossentry id="gloss-kpart">
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<glossterm>Kpart</glossterm>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KPart">
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Kpart</ulink>; KParts is the name of the component framework
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for the &kde; desktop environment. KParts are
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analogous to Bonobo components in <ulink url="http://www.gnome.org"><application>GNOME</application></ulink>,
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both of which are based on the same concepts as
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&Microsoft;'s Object Linking and Embedding. e.g.
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if you use &krusader;'s viewer to view a PDF file,
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KPDF wil be launched inside &krusader;'s
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<glossentry id="gloss-kio">
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<acronym>KIO</acronym> or kioslave</glossterm>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kioslave">KDE
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Input/Output</ulink>; also known as
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KIO Slaves is part of the &kde;
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architecture. It provides access to files, web sites and
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other resources through a single consistent API.</para>
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<glossentry id="gloss-mount">
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<glossterm>mount</glossterm>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mount_%28computing%29">
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Mouting</ulink>; in computer science, is the process of
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making a file system ready for use by the operating system,
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typically by reading certain index data structures from
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storage into memory ahead of time. The term recalls a period
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in the history of computing when an operator had to mount a
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magnetic tape or hard disk on a spindle before using
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<glossentry id="gloss-ofm">
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<acronym>OFM</acronym>
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<ulink url="http://www.softpanorama.org/OFM/index.shtml">
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Orthodox File Manager</ulink>; also known as "Commanders".
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Members of this family of file managers use simple yet very
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powerful interface that is a direct derivative of the
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norton_Commander">
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Norton Commander</ulink> (NC) interface.</para>
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<glossentry id="gloss-rpm">
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<glossterm>RPM</glossterm>
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<para>This is the binary file format for distributions based
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<ulink url="http://www.rpm.org/">RPM Package Manager</ulink>,
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a widely used packaging tool for the &Linux;
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operating system. If you still have to get
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&krusader; and your system supports RPM packages,
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you should get &krusader; packages ending in
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<glossentry id="gloss-ssh">
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<acronym>SSH</acronym>, Secure Shell</glossterm>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH">SSH</ulink>;
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is a set of standards and an associated network protocol that allows
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establishing a secure channel between a local and a remote computer.</para>
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<glossentry id="gloss-svn">
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<acronym>SVN</acronym>, Subversion</glossterm>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subversion">
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Subversion</ulink>; a version control system that is a
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compelling replacement for
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<link linkend="gloss-cvs">CVS</link>. It is used by many
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software projects including &kde; and
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<glossentry id="gloss-termemu">
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<glossterm>Terminal emulator</glossterm>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_emulator">
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Terminal emulator</ulink>; simply a windowed shell; this is
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known as command line window in some other environments. If
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you want to use the shell and type the commands, you should
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know at least a few of the system-level commands for your
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operating system.</para>
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<glossentry id="gloss-posix">
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<acronym>POSIX</acronym>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posix">"Portable
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Operating System Interface for uniX"</ulink>; a collective
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name of a family of related standards specified by the IEEE
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to define the application programming interface (API) for
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software compatible with variants of the &UNIX;
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operating system.</para>
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<glossentry id="gloss-url">
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<acronym>&URL;</acronym>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/URL">Universal
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Resource Locater</ulink>; a universal resource locater is the
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technical term for what is commonly referred to as a websites
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address. Examples of URLs include
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<ulink url="http://krusader.sourceforge.net">
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http://krusader.sourceforge.net</ulink> and
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<link linkend="remote-connections">Remote Connections</link>.</para>
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<glossentry id="gloss-vfs">
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<acronym>VFS</acronym>
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<para><link linkend="vfs">Virtual file systems (VFS)</link> is a basic
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<link linkend="features">OFM feature</link>, this an
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abstracted layer over all kinds of archived information (ZIP
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files, FTP servers, TAR archives, NFS filesystems, SAMBA
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shares, ISO cd/dvd images, RPM catalogs, etc.), which allows
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the user to access all the information in these divergent
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types of file systems transparently - just like entering an
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ordinary sub-directory! &krusader; supports
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several <link linkend="vfs">Virtual file systems (VFS)</link>.</para>
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<glossentry id="gloss-xml">
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<glossterm>XML</glossterm>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xml">Extensible
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Markup Language</ulink>; a very flexible text format derived
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from SGML (ISO 8879). Originally designed to meet the
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challenges of large-scale electronic publishing, XML is also
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playing an increasingly important role in the exchange of a
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wide variety of data on the Web and elsewhere.</para>
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<glossentry id="gloss-zeroconf">
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<glossterm>Zeroconf</glossterm>
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<ulink url="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroconf">Zeroconf</ulink>;
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or Zero Configuration Networking is a set of techniques that automatically
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create a usable IP network without configuration or special servers.
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This allows inexpert users to connect computers, networked printers,
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and other items together and expect them to work automatically.</para>
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