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electronic mail (e-mail)
Messages delivered over an electronic network to an electronic mailbox where they can be read, saved to disk, or replied to or ditched! EMail is a generic term to refer to all types of electronic mail, including that on the internet.

Electronic Magazine
A series of articles and documents on the WWW which use the metaphor of a magazine, for example GarfNet's The New Millennium electronic magazine.

EMail (also written e-mail)
Electronic mail

emulation
This is where one device is configured to device to ape the operation of another. For example, the Apple Macintosh can run special software to emulate a PC running Microsoft Windows.

error correction protocol
In relation to data transmission, a set of rules negotiated by modems to ensure that a transmitted file is received intact (ie without error). Example protocols are MNP4 and V42. Error correction is also performed by most file-transfer protocols.

extended character set
A collective term for several platform-specific character sets describing 128 characters additional to the original 128 of the ASCII character set. Mostly used for lines and graphics symbols.

EZine
Electronic Magazine

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