|.TERM|gain
|.ACR|
     |.DEFIN|1|The ratio of the distance the pointer moves to the distance
the mouse moves.
          |.XREF|
          |.BOOK|MotifStyleGd
          |.TOPIC|
|.TERM|gateway
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|An entity that operates above the link layer and translates,
when required, the interface and protocol used by one network into those used
by another distinct network.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
	|.DEFIN|2|The network that connects hosts.
		|.XREF|active gateway
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
	|.DEFIN|3|A host that has the special role of routing data from one network to another network.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|OSNetComAdminGd
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|gateway host
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|A host that connects independent networks. It has multiple
interfaces, each with a different name and address.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|Gateway-to-Gateway Protocol
|.ACR|GGP
	|.DEFIN|1|The protocol with which a gateway determines connectivity to
networks and neighbor gateways and implements the shortest-path routing
algorithm.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|gather
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|For input/output operations, to read data from noncontiguous
memory locations to write to a device. Contrast with
\(LI\s12\f(HIscatter\(LI\s12\fH.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|GDA
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|*
		|.XREF|Global Directory Agent
		|.BOOK|introDCE
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|GDS
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|The DCE Global Directory Service.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|introDCE
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|general purpose register
|.ACR|GPR
	|.DEFIN|1|An explicitly addressable register that can be used for a
variety of purposes (for example, as an accumulator or an index register).
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|generation
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|A means of referencing items in terms of time and ancestry so
that an item without antecedents is designated as the first (n-th) generation
and subsequent derivations are designated as n-1, n-2, and so on.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
	|.DEFIN|2|For some remote systems, the translation of configuration into
machine language.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|generation phase
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|The part of the sort program that translates the sequence
specifications into machine language.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|generic interface
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|The interface, defined at a level that is independent 
of any particular programming language.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|introDCE
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|GGP
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|*
		|.XREF|Gateway\(LI-to-Gateway Protocol
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|GID
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|*
		|.XREF|group number
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|giga
|.ACR|G
	|.DEFIN|1|Ten to the ninth power; 1,000,000,000 in decimal notation. When
referring to storage capacity, two to the thirtieth power; 1,073,741,824 in
decimal notation.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|gigabyte
|.ACR|GB
	|.DEFIN|1|A unit of measurement for storage capacity equal
to 1,073,741,824 (2\u\s-430\s0\d) bytes.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|introDCE
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|GKS
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|*
		|.XREF|Graphics Kernel System
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|global
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|In programming languages, pertaining to the relationship between
a language object and a block in which the language object has a scope
extending beyond that block but contained within an encompassing block.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|OSUsersGd
		|.TOPIC|
	|.DEFIN|2|Pertaining to information defined in one subdivision of a
computer program and used in at least one other subdivision of the program.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
	|.DEFIN|3|Pertaining to information available to more than one program or
subroutine.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|global action
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|An action having general applicability, independent of the
context established by any task.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|OSUsersGd
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|global area
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|A storage area used for communication between two or more main
programs.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
	|.DEFIN|2|An uninitialized portion of a partition accessible by any
program of a task set in the partition at a given time. The same area may be
used by other task sets that execute in the same partition.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|global data
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|Data that can be addressed by any process while in kernel mode.
It contains such tables as the open file table and process table, and other
data such as buffer pointers, maintained by the kernel.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|Global Directory Agent
|.ACR|GDA
	|.DEFIN|1|A DCE component that makes it possible for the local Cell
Directory Service (CDS) to access names in foreign cells. The GDA provides a
connection to foreign cells through either the Global Directory Service
(GDS) or the Domain Name System (DNS).
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|introDCE
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|global internal data structure
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|A data structure that contains control information specific to a
given virtual terminal. Also called \(LI\s12\f(HIenvironment
structure\(LI\s12\fH.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|global name
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|A name that is universally meaningful and usable from
anywhere in the DCE naming environment. The prefix
.B "/..."
indicates that
a name is global.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|introDCE
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|global search
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|In word processing, the process of having the system look
through a document for specific characters, words, or groups of characters.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|OSUsersGd
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|Global Server
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|DTS: A server that frequently provides its 
clock value to Courier Servers on other LANs, or infrequently provides its 
clock value to systems that have failed to obtain the specified number of 
servers locally.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|introDCE
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|global set
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|DTS: The group of Global Servers in a network.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|introDCE
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|global variable
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|A symbol defined in one program module but used in other
independently assembled program modules.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|glue layer
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|DFS: The VFS+ functions that integrate the token and
authentication requirements of the DCE environment with the standard
VFS functions available to a file system.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|introDCE
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|goto statement
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|A C language control statement that contains the word
\s12\f(HBgoto\s12\fH followed by an identifier and a semicolon. The
identifier must match a statement label in the current function.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|GPR
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|*
		|.XREF|general purpose register
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|grammar file
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|A descriptive file supplied to \fByacc\fR.  The grammar file
describes the input data stream and what the parser is to do with the
data.  The grammar file includes rules describing the input structure,
code to be invoked when these rules are recognized, and a routine to
do the basic input.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|OSApplProgGd
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|grammar rules
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|The structure rules in a parser program.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|OSApplProgGd
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|grandchild process
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|A second generation child process; a process forked from a child
process.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|granularity
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|The extent to which a larger entity is subdivided. For example,
a yard broken into inches has finer granularity than a yard broken into feet.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|graphic character
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|A character that can be displayed or printed.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|Graphics Kernel System
|.ACR|GKS
	|.DEFIN|1|An ANSI standard for interfacing graphics applications programs
to computer systems and computer terminals.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|grayed selection
|.ACR|
     |.DEFIN|1|A Menu selection that is not currently available and so has
been dimmed.
          |.XREF|
          |.BOOK|MotifStyleGd
          |.TOPIC|
|.TERM|group
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|RPC: A name service entry that corresponds to
one or more RPC servers that offer common RPC interface(s), RPC
object(s), or both. A group contains the names of the server
entries, other groups, or both that are members of the group.
		|.XREF|NSI group attribute
		|.BOOK|introDCE
		|.TOPIC|
	|.DEFIN|2|Security: Data that associates a named set of principals who can be
granted common access rights.  Also, the second field of a subject identifier.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|introDCE
		|.TOPIC|
	|.DEFIN|3|A set of related records that have the same value for a
particular field in all records.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
	|.DEFIN|4|A series of records logically joined together.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
	|.DEFIN|5|A series of lines repeated consecutively as a set on a
full-screen form or full screen panel.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
	|.DEFIN|6|A collection of users who can share access authorities for
protected resources.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|OSUsersGd
		|.BOOK|OSAdminGd
		|.TOPIC|
	|.DEFIN|7|A list of names that are known together by a single name.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|group ID
|.ACR|GID
	|.DEFIN|1|*
		|.XREF|group number
		|.BOOK|OSUsersGd
		|.BOOK|OSAdminGd
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|group leader process
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|The first accessible process in a process group. For example,
when a user logs in, the shell process is the group leader process, and any
process descendants are in the process group.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|group member
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|RPC: A name service entry whose name occurs in the
group.
		|.XREF|group
		|.BOOK|introDCE
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|group name
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|A name that uniquely identifies a group of users to the system.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|group number
|.ACR|GID
	|.DEFIN|1|A unique number assigned to a group of related users. The group
number can often be substituted in commands that take a group name as an
argument.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|OSUsersGd
		|.BOOK|OSAdminGd
		|.TOPIC|
|.TERM|guard expressions
|.ACR|
	|.DEFIN|1|Expressions placed at the beginning of Boolean expressions to
check that other operations can be done.
		|.XREF|
		|.BOOK|
		|.TOPIC|
