Glossary

A collection of abbreviations and acronyms.

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.ics, .ifb, .iCal, .iFBf

Internet Calendaring and Scheduling (iCalendar)

iCalendar is a standard method of transferring calendaring and scheduling, free or busy time information between computer systems.

• Category: document format, file extension

• MIME-Type: text/calendar

• Type: file extension

• References: link 2, link 3

ANSI

American National Standards Institute

• Category: standard, non-profit organization

• Type: acronym

API

Application Programming Interface

• Category: programming, communication interface, specification

• Type: acronym

ASCII

American Standard Code for Information Interchange

• Category: standard, character encoding

• Type: acronym

BCC

Blind Carbon Copy

• Category: email, header field

• Type: acronym

BOM

Byte Order Mark

• Category: unicode, code point

• Type: acronym

CC

Carbon Copy

• Category: email, header field

• Type: acronym

CMS

Cryptographic Message Syntax

• Category: signing, encryption, gpgme

• Type: acronym

COPR

Cool Other Package Repo

• Category: fedora, software repository

• Type: acronym

CR

Carriage Return

• Category: control character

• Type: acronym

CSS

Cascading Style Sheets

• Category: style sheet language

• Type: acronym

DBCS

Double-Byte Character Set

• Category: character encoding, character set

• Type: acronym

DNS

Domain Name System

• Category: internet protocol

• Type: acronym

DSN

Delivery Status Notification

• Category: email, bounce message, responder

• Type: acronym

EOF

End of File

• Category: stream indicator

• Type: acronym

EOL

End of Line

• Category: stream indicator

• Type: acronym

EOT

End of Transmission

• Category: control character

• Type: acronym

FOSS

Free and Open Source Software

• Category: license, free software, open source

• Type: acronym

GCC

GNU Compiler Collection

• Category: programming, compiler

• Type: acronym

GDBM

GNU Data Base Manager

• Category: library, database

• Type: acronym

GFM

GitHub Flavoured Markdown

• Category: markup language, markdown

• Type: acronym

GNU

GNU’s Not Unix

• Category: operating system, free software, project

• Type: recursive acronym

GPGME

GnuPG Made Easy

• Category: library, cryptographic api

• Type: acronym

GSSAPI

Generic Security Services Application Program Interface

• Category: standard, api

• Type: acronym

HTML

Hypertext Markup Language

• Category: markup language

• Type: acronym

IDN

Internationalized Domain Names

• Category: internet, domain name

• Type: acronym

IMAP, IMAP4

Internet Message Access Protocol

• Category: email, internet protocol

• Type: acronym

IRC

Internet Relay Chat

• Category: internet protocol, communication

• Type: acronym

• References: link 2

LDAP

Lightweight Directory Access Protocol

• Category: internet protocol, authentication, validation

• Type: acronym

LF

Line Feed

• Category: control character

• Type: acronym

LMDB

Lightning Memory-Mapped Database Manager

• Category: library, database

• Type: acronym

Lua

Scripting Language (from Portuguese, meaning moon)

• Category: script language

• Type: noun

MBCS

Multi-Byte Character Set

• Category: character encoding, character set

• Type: acronym

MIME

Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions

• Category: content type, media type, document format

• Type: acronym

MUA

Mail User Agent

• Category: email, client, mail reader

• Type: acronym

NCR

Numeric Character Reference

• Category: code point, character encoding, character set

• Type: acronym

Notmuch

Not much mail

• Category: email, mail indexing, mail tagging

• Type: abbreviation

• References: link 2

nroff

new runoff

• Category: software, document processor, text formatter

• Type: abbreviation

OBDB

Oracle Berkeley Database

• Category: library, database

• Type: acronym

PGP

Pretty Good Privacy

• Category: certification, signing, encryption, authentication

• Type: acronym

POP, POP3

Post Office Protocol

• Category: email, internet protocol

• Type: acronym

PPA

Personal Package Archive

• Category: software repository, packaging

• Type: acronym

QDBM

Quick Data Base Manager

• Category: library, database

• Type: acronym

RFC

Request for Comments

• Category: standard, documentation, white paper

• Type: acronym

• References: link 2

RTF

Rich Text Format

• Category: document format, file extension

• Type: acronym

SASL

Simple Authentication and Security Layer

• Category: library, framework, authentication, negotiation

• Type: acronym

SBCS

Single-Byte Character Set

• Category: character encoding, character set

• Type: acronym

settext

structure-enhanced text

• Category: markdown, header style

• Type: abbreviation

SMTP

Simple Mail Transfer Protocol

• Category: email, internet protocol

• Type: acronym

SOCKS

Socket Secure (Internet Protocol)

• Category: internet protocol, proxy

• Type: acronym

SSL

Secure Sockets Layer

• Category: internet protocol

• Type: acronym

Tar

Tape archiver

• Category: software, file archiver

• Type: acronym

tarball

Tar generated archive file

• Category: file format, tar

• Type: slang

TBD

To Be Defined

• Category: management, draft, work in progress

• Type: acronym

To Be Determined

• Category: management, draft, work in progress

• Type: acronym

TLS

Transport Layer Security

• Category: internet protocol

• Type: acronym

UCS

Universal Coded Character Set (Unicode, ISO/IEC)

• Category: character encoding, character set, unicode

• Type: acronym

URL, URLs

Uniform Resource Locator

• Category: hyperlink, reference, identifier

• Type: acronym

UTF

UCS Transformation Format

• Category: character encoding, character set, unicode

• Type: acronym

UTF-16

16-Bit UCS Transformation Format

• Category: character encoding, character set, unicode

• Type: acronym

UTF-32

32-Bit UCS Transformation Format

• Category: character encoding, character set, unicode

• Type: acronym

UTF-8

8-Bit UCS Transformation Format

• Category: character encoding, character set, unicode

• Type: acronym

YAML

YAML Ain’t Markup Language

• Category: markup language

• Type: recursive acronym

• References: link 2, link 3

ZIP

archive file format (meaning “move at high speed”)

• Category: file format, data compression

• Type: slang