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Glossary its button held down, in order to position an icon or other object that has been "dragged" to a new position See also Drag and Drop. E EEPROM. Electronically erasable read-only memory. A non-volatile storage device using a technique similar to the floating gates in EPROMs but with the capability to discharge the floating gate electrically. Usually bytes or words can be erased and reprogrammed individually during system operations. Environment The conditions in which your commands or programs are executed. These conditions include your workstation characteristics, home directory, and default search paths See also Environment variables. Environment variables The set of defined shell variables (some of which are PATH, TERM, SHELL, EXINIT, and HOME) that define the conditions in which, or values with which, your commands are executed. These conditions and values 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. F Fast-wide Low-Voltage Differential 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 Ultra Narrow Single-Ended 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. File Manager The HP CDE application that allows you to 196