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environment variables The set of defined shell variables (some of which are PATH, TERM, SHELL, EXINIT, HOME) that define the conditions under which your commands are executed. These conditions include your workstation characteristics, home directory, and default search paths. See also environment. ETHERNET The LAN developed jointly by Digital Equipment Corporation, Intel, and Xerox Corporation, upon which the IEEE 802.3 network is based. Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) An industry standard bus architecture based on and compatible with that used by IBM in their AT series computers. fast, wide SCSI A 16-bit wide bus with high-power receivers and drivers, which allows a cable length of up to 25 meters and a speed of up to 20 MB per second. See also single-ended standard SCSI, Small Computer System Interface. file The basic named unit of data stored on disk. See also directory, filename. file access permissions The access rights given to a particular file or directory. Every file and directory has a set of access permissions, a code that determines whether a process can perform a requested operation on the file (such as opening the file or writing to it). See also access permissions. GL-9