Vocabulary updates

Enrico Zini enrico at enricozini.org
Sat May 31 10:00:15 UTC 2008


Hello,

I have committed a few updates to the Debtags vocabulary.  Thank you to
everyone that suggested them.


+Tag: hardware::gps
+Description: GPS
+ Global Positioning System
 

+Tag protocol::tftp
+Description: TFTP
+ Trivial File Transfer Protocol, a simple file transfer protocol.  TFTP allows
+ a client to get or put a file onto a remote host.  One of its primary uses is
+ the network booting of diskless nodes on a Local Area Network.  It is designed
+ to be easy to implement so it fits on ROM.
+ .
+ Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trivial_File_Transfer_Protocol
+ Link: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1350.txt


 Tag: protocol::nntp
 Description: NNTP
- Network News Transfer Protocol, a protocol for reading in writing Usenet
- articles (a Usenet article is comparable with an email), but also used
- among NNTP servers to transfer articles. 
+ Network News Transfer Protocol, a protocol for reading and writing Usenet
+ articles (a Usenet article is comparable with an email), but also used among
+ NNTP servers to transfer articles.
  .
  Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_News_Transfer_Protocol
  Link: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc977.txt
 

  SFTP provides a complete set of file system operations, different from its
- predecessor SCP, which only allowed file transfer. It is not, other than the
- name might suggest, the a version of the FTP protocol executed through an
- SSH channel.
+ predecessor SCP, which only allows file transfer. It is not, other than the
+ name might suggest, a version of the FTP protocol executed through an SSH
+ channel.
  .
  Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SSH_file_transfer_protocol
 

Ciao,

Enrico

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