Ikonboard Glossary of Terms

ASCII - Plain Text - A type of file transfer used on text-based files, such as scripts, html documents, or other text-based items used on the web.
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Binary - A type of file transfer used on images, such as gif, jpg, or png, as well as "grouped" or archived files, such as tar or exe, and compressed files such as zip & gz.
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CGI - Common Gateway Interface- A common misconception is that CGI is a language. This is not true. A CGI is a server process, many different languages can be run as a CGI process including Perl and PHP.
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CHMOD - Change mode - The Unix command and system call to change the access permissions of a named file.
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FTP - File Tansfer Protocol - The transfer files between local & remote systems, such as webpages, images, compressed files, sounds, and other website related items.
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tar - Tape Archives - based on the tape back-up devices used by early Unix platforms. A useful way to transport many files without compression while retaining the original file names, data and permission settings. One .tar file could contain tens, hundreds or even thousands of files. These files are always uploaded in binary.
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