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TPI

Tracks Per Inch. A measure of the density with which data can

be stored on a diskette.

Track

A circular region on a diskette, which is divided into sectors.

Each side of a

1.44MB

or 720KB diskette has 80 concentric

tracks. Each side of a 360KB 5

diskette has 40. On a

hard disk, tracks are called cylinders.

Utility program

A type of application program designed to perform

housekeeping chores, such as copying files, creating directories,

and so on. HELP and MENU are examples of utility programs.

Volume label

A name (up to eleven characters in length) you can assign to a

diskette or hard disk. To add or change a volume label for a

diskette or hard disk that has already been formatted, use the

MS-DOS LABEL command.

Wildcard character

A character that represents an unknown character or group of

characters. MS-DOS recognizes two wildcard characters: * and

?. The asterisk represents a group of characters, and the question

mark represents a single character.

Write

To record data on a disk.

Write-protect

To prevent a diskette from being overwritten. When a diskette

is write-protected, you cannot erase, change, or record over its

contents.

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