• A File Control Block (FCB) is a file system structure in which the state of an open file is maintained. A FCB is managed by the operating system, but it...
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  • time. The equivalent control block for IBM DOS/360, DOS/VSE and z/VSE operating systems is a "DTF" (Define the file) symbolic file name (to match a JCL...
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  • capability itself. A Unix process' file descriptor table is an example of a C-list. fuser (Unix) lsof File Control Block (FCB) - an alternative scheme in...
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  • files are usually represented either by a file control block or by a file handle. A file control block (FCB) is an area of memory which is manipulated...
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  • The computer file hosts is an operating system file that maps hostnames to IP addresses. It is a plain text file. Originally a file named HOSTS.TXT was...
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  • two general kinds of device files in Unix-like operating systems, known as character special files and block special files. The difference between them...
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  • group in the classification of bacteria File Control Block Fluocortin butyl, a synthetic glucocorticoid Forms Control Buffer in a printer Fort Collins Brewery...
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    actual size only when the block contains "real" (non-empty) data. Most commonly, sparse files are created when blocks of the file are never written to. This...
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  • than a full-sized block of data to signal that it is the last. If the size of the transferred file is an exact multiple of the block size, the source sends...
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  • Dual Inline Memory Module FC-AL—Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop FCB—File Control Block FCS—Frame Check Sequence FDC—Floppy-Disk Controller FDS—Fedora Directory...
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  • shared-disk file system uses a storage area network (SAN) to allow multiple computers to gain direct disk access at the block level. Access control and translation...
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    systems to indicate "end of file" either on a terminal or in a text file. Unix / Linux systems use Control-D to indicate end-of-file at a terminal. The Unicode...
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  • Latin Unicode block, sometimes informally called C0 Controls and Basic Latin, is the first block of the Unicode standard, and the only block which is encoded...
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  • information for a number of file systems. Note that in addition to the below table, block capabilities can be implemented below the file system layer in Linux...
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  • packets file". Retrieved 2024-08-05. TechNote.txt: RAR version 4.00 - Technical information (Technical report). 2010-12-01. The marker block is actually...
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    GIF (category Animated graphics file formats)
    control over display fonts, however, this feature is rarely used. The two versions can be distinguished by looking at the first six bytes of the file...
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  • Interleaved deltas (category Version control systems)
    the Source Code Control System to store all revisions of a file. All lines from all revisions are "woven" together in a single block of data, with interspersed...
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  • and file versioning. The original ODS-1 layer is a flat file system; the ODS-2 version is a hierarchical file system, with support for access control lists...
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    subcommand for naming files is used, the filename is stored from offset DS:5D to DS:67 (the Program Segment Prefix File Control Block area), meaning that...
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    CP/M (redirect from CP/M file system)
    the file's File Control Block (FCB) by the operating system. Since many application programs (such as text editors) prefer to deal with files as sequences...
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  • A process control block (PCB), also sometimes called a process descriptor, is a data structure used by a computer operating system to store all the information...
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  • wall time. File systems keep track of the times that files are created, modified, and/or accessed by storing timestamps in the file control block (or inode)...
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    hidden parameter permits, for example, a file I/O gate to contain the address or handle of the file control block. Since this is guaranteed to be correct...
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    The InterPlanetary File System (IPFS) is a protocol, hypermedia and file sharing peer-to-peer network for sharing data using a distributed hash table...
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  • storage reserved for a file in a file system, represented as a range of block numbers, or tracks on count key data devices. A file can consist of zero or...
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    pressing and press multiple keys in order. You can grab a join block if you want more control on the extension. A paper published in 2019 by NYU argues and...
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  • WordStar (section File types)
    used the MS-DOS File control block (FCB) interface, an early data structure for file input/output which was based closely on CP/M's file input/output functions...
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  • for storing file>). An ongoing transfer of file data over the data connection can be aborted using an interrupt message sent over the control connection...
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  • end-of-file condition has occurred. The actual value of EOF is implementation-dependent and must be negative (it is commonly −1, such as in glibc). Block-reading...
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  • software-defined storage platform that provides object storage, block storage, and file storage built on a common distributed cluster foundation. Ceph...
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