telecom@eecs.nwu.edu (TELECOM Moderator) (11/19/89)
I was very pleased to receive a note this past week from Dave Padgitt sending along a glossary of telecommunications terms. In addition, another reference file of acronyms has been made available. The first file has been placed in the Telecom Archives entitled, 'glossary.txt'. It is a semi-large file, in excess of 60,000 blocks, so you will want to have room to accomodate it when you capture it using ftp. To obtain your copy: 'ftp cs.bu.edu' login 'anonymous' and issue a non-null password. 'cd telecom-archives' 'get glossary.txt' 'get glossary.acronyms' I'd like to make this a continuing project: As you review it, if you think of other telecom terms which ought to be listed, send them to me here, and please ** use the same format and same editing style as the existing work. ** The reason is, I will take all the additions eventually received and edit them into a revised glossary.txt. I'd rather not have to do a lot of extra editing work to make them conform. A companion file is entitled 'glossary.acronyms', and I hope you will take a copy of it also, and review it in the same way: with the intent of adding new acronyms used in the telecommunications industry. This file is not exclusively telecom-related acronyms, but quite a few of them are. It was presented to the Telecom Archives by Michael A. Patton. This file is about 8400 blocks. If you cannot fetch your copies using ftp -- and your address will tell me if this is the case or not -- then write and ask me; I will send a copy from here. My thanks to Dave and Mike for their valuable additions to the Telecom Archives. You can thank them personally by writing to: Dave_Padgitt@um.cc.umich.edu map@lcs.mit.edu <Michael A. Patton> Patrick Townson