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Absolute Pathname
Absolute pathnames work down through your complete directory heirarchy, describing every level of the directory structure, from the top, to the location of the linked file.

Access Time
The amount of time it takes for information to be retrieved from disk or memory after being requested by a user.

Angle Brackets
(<)Left angle bracket
(>)Right-angle bracket.

Applications
Applications are the programs that run on your computer. Examples of applications are web browsers, word processing programs, and spreadsheets.

Archie
A system used on the internet to list files available via anonymous ftp.

ASCII
(American Standard Code for Information Interchange) Pronounced ask-ee, ASCII is a code for representing English characters as numbers, with each letter assigned a number from 0 to 127. For example, the ASCII code for uppercase M is 77. Most computers use ASCII codes to represent text, which makes it possible to transfer data from one computer to another.