9560 Transaction Manager User's Manual - Intermec

Glossary
Glossary
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This glossary defines general data collection terms and terms used in this manual.
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A discrete, self-checking code for encoding numeric data only. The bars encode
information, and the spaces separate individual bars. It can achieve densities of
15 characters per inch.
ABC symbol
The American Blood Commission symbol, developed in 1977 by the
Committee for the Commonality in Blood Banking Automation (CCBBA) as a
bar code standard for automated systems in the blood service community. The
symbology is known as Codabar.
Accumulate mode
Reader stores scanned labels in the buffer until a transmit command is
received. Enabled in Data Entry Mode only.
AFF
affirmative acknowledgement character
Enables or disables the handshake event and/or indicates an affirmative
acknowledgement to a message.
alphanumeric
Character set containing letters, numbers, and other characters, such as
punctuation marks.
ANSI
The American National Standards Institute. A non-governmental organization
responsible for developing voluntary manufacturing standards.
ASCII
The character set and code described in American National Standard Code for
Information Interchange, ANSI X3.4-1977. Each ASCII character is encoded
with 7-bits (8 bits including parity check). The ASCII set consists of both
control and printing characters used for information interchange between data
processing systems, communication systems, and associated equipment.
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