Appendix C.3 Conventions: Acronyms

This manual also uses the following acronyms:

AcronymFull name or meaning
APIapplication programming interface
ASCIIAmerican Standard Code for Information Interchange
CDCompact Disc
CD-ROMCompact Disc Read Only Memory
DLLdynamic linking library
FDfloppy disk
GUIgraphical user interface
HDhard disk
HTMLHyper Text Markup Language
I/Oinput/output
IDidentifier
IMEinput method editor
IPInternet protocol
MBCSmulti-byte character set
MS-DOSMicrosoft Disk Operating System
ODBCOpen Database Connectivity
OSoperating system
PCpersonal computer
PDFPortable Document Format
PPprogram product