Extended Unix Code (EUC) is a multibyte character encoding system used primarily for Japanese, Korean, and simplified Chinese (characters). The most commonly...
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ISO/IEC 2022 (redirect from Code page 956)
4873 (ECMA-43), which is in turn conformed to by ISO/IEC 8859, and Extended Unix Code, which is used for East Asian languages. More specialised applications...
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"Information Separators" (ISn) such as the Unix info format and Python's splitlines string method. The names of some codes were changed in ISO 6429:1992 (or ECMA-48:1991)...
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EBCDIC (redirect from Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code)
Extended Binary Coded Decimal Interchange Code (EBCDIC; /ˈɛbsɪdɪk/) is an eight-bit character encoding used mainly on IBM mainframe and IBM midrange computer...
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commonly called simply UNIX (in caps) or the UNIX Time-Sharing System. Ancient UNIX is any early release of the Unix code base prior to Unix System III, particularly...
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European University Cyprus, in Nicosia, Cyprus End-user computing Extended Unix Code, a character encoding Eravur Urban Council, a local authority in Sri...
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List of Unicode characters (section Control codes)
Latin Extended-C (Unicode block) Latin Extended-D (Unicode block) Latin Extended-E (Unicode block) Latin Extended-F (Unicode block) Latin Extended-G (Unicode...
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Glob (programming) (redirect from Glob (Unix))
glob() and gmatch() derived from code used in Bell Labs in-house utilities that developed alongside the original Unix in the early 1970s. Among those utilities...
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Berkeley Software Distribution (redirect from BSD Unix)
began as an improved derivative of AT&T's original Unix developed at Bell Labs, based on the source code. Over time, BSD evolved into a distinct operating...
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files as a single archive file. Originally developed for Unix, it is widely available on Unix-based systems, and similar commands are available on other...
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The history of Unix dates back to the mid-1960s, when the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bell Labs, and General Electric were jointly developing...
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similar to more, but has the extended capability of allowing both forward and backward navigation through the file. Unlike most Unix text editors/viewers, less...
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members in the extended file system family: ext2, the second extended file system. ext3, the third extended file system. ext4, the fourth extended file system...
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Year 2038 problem (redirect from Unix date bug)
19 January 2038. The problem exists in systems which measure Unix time—the number of seconds elapsed since the Unix epoch (00:00:00 UTC on 1 January 1970)—and store...
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ASCII (redirect from ASCII code)
terminal, and NL (newline) is often used to refer to CRLF in UNIX documents. Unix and Unix-like systems, and Amiga systems, adopted this convention from...
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Character encoding (redirect from Character code)
equipment. IBM's BCD encodings were the precursors of their Extended Binary-Coded Decimal Interchange Code (usually abbreviated as EBCDIC), an eight-bit encoding...
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Vi (text editor) (redirect from Vi (Unix))
described by (and thus standardized by) the Single Unix Specification and POSIX. The original code for vi was written by Bill Joy in 1976 as the visual...
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CNS 11643 (redirect from Chinese Standard Interchange Code)
Taiwan. EUC-TW is an encoded representation of CNS 11643 and ASCII in Extended Unix Code (EUC) form. In practice, variants of the Big5 character set, which...
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same two bytes in extended ASCII encodings, including UTF-8, which is commonly used for scripts and other text files on current Unix-like systems. However...
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Unix System V (pronounced: "System Five") is one of the first commercial versions of the Unix operating system. It was originally developed by AT&T and...
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List of operating systems (section Unix or Unix-like)
v4 UNIX Time-Sharing System v5 UNIX Time-Sharing System v6 MINI-UNIX PWB/UNIX USG CB Unix UNIX Time-Sharing System v7 (It is from Version 7 Unix (and...
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license for the source code of UNIX from AT&T's Bell Labs. Students doing operating systems research at the CSRG modified and extended UNIX, and the CSRG made...
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Version 7 Unix, also called Seventh Edition Unix, Version 7 or just V7, was an important early release of the Unix operating system. V7, released in 1979...
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Shell script (redirect from Unix shell scripting)
A shell script is a computer program designed to be run by a Unix shell, a command-line interpreter. The various dialects of shell scripts are considered...
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ETW—Event Tracing for Windows EUC—Extended Unix Code EULA—End User License Agreement EWMH—Extended Window Manager Hints EXT—EXTended file system ETA—Estimated...
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object code, shared libraries, and core dumps. First published in the specification for the application binary interface (ABI) of the Unix operating...
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Cron (redirect from Crontab (Unix command))
The cron command-line utility is a job scheduler on Unix-like operating systems. Users who set up and maintain software environments use cron to schedule...
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format for executable, object code, and shared library computer files used on Unix systems. It was introduced in Unix System V, replaced the previously...
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interactive command interpreter and command programming language developed for UNIX-like operating systems. Created in 1989 by Brian Fox for the GNU Project...
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Internet Explorer for UNIX is a discontinued version of the Internet Explorer graphical web browser that was available free of charge and produced by Microsoft...
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