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In Information Presentation Facility, a document element that formats text in an arrangement of rows and columns.

(1) One or more characters attached to a set of data that contain information about the set, including its identification. (I) (A) (2) In Generalized Markup Language markup, a name for a type of document or document element that is entered in the source document to identify it.

An object to which the user is transferring information.

In the Presentation Manager, the list of programs that are active. The list can be used to switch to a program and to stop programs.

Pertaining to an application that modifies an operating system interrupt vector to point to its own location (known as hooking an interrupt).

Characters or symbols.

A symbol displayed in an entry field that indicates where typed input will appear.

Also known as the VIO window.

The environment in which the operating system performs advanced-video input and output operations.

A unit of execution within a process. It uses the resources of the process.

The portion of the scroll bar that describes the range and properties of the data that is currently visible in a window. Also known as a slider box.

Term used to describe the process of address conversion, stack and structure realignment, etc., necessary when passing control between 16-bit and 32-bit modules.

A mark used to denote the character that is to be used as a mnemonic when selecting text items within a menu.

(1) An interval of time on the processing unit allocated for use in performing a task. After the interval has expired, processing-unit time is allocated to another task, so a task cannot monopolize processing-unit time beyond a fixed limit. (2) In systems with time sharing, a segment of time allocated to a terminal job.

A process that must be performed within a specified time after an event has occurred.

A facility provided under the Presentation Manager, whereby Presentation Manager will dispatch a message of class WM_TIMER to a particular window at specified intervals. This capability may be used by an application to perform a specific processing task at predetermined intervals, without the necessity for the application to explicitly keep track of the passage of time.

See clock tick.

In SAA Advanced Common User Access architecture, the area at the top of each window that contains the window title and system menu icon. When appropriate, it also contains the minimize, maximize, and restore icons. Contrast with panel title.

Translation lookaside buffer.

An exchange between a workstation and another device that accomplishes a particular action or result.

(1) The action of modifying a picture by scaling, shearing, reflecting, rotating, or translating. (2) The object that performs or defines such a modification; also referred to as a transformation.

A hardware-based address caching mechanism for paging information.

In the Presentation Manager, the window in the File Manager that shows the organization of drives and directories.

(1) To terminate a computational process in accordance with some rule (A) (2) To remove the beginning or ending elements of a string. (3) To drop data that cannot be printed or displayed in the line width specified or available. (4) To shorten a field or statement to a specified length.

Terminate-and-stay-resident.

A circular buffer, created in memory, used by related processes to communicate with one another. Contrast with named pipe.

In Information Presentation Facility, a vertical arrangement of items in a list, with each item in the list preceded by a special character or bullet.

A system-provided area of dynamic storage containing one or more (not necessarily contiguous) rectangular areas of a window that are visually invalid or incorrect, and therefore are in need of repainting.

Hardware, software, or both that allows a user to interact with and perform operations on a system, program, or device.

A component of OS/2 that uses a graphics-based, windowed interface to allow the user to manage applications and files installed and running under OS/2.

(1) A computer program in general support of computer processes; for example, a diagnostic program, a trace program, a sort program. (T) (2) A program designed to perform an everyday task such as copying data from one storage device to another. (A)