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pager

 

  1  definition  found 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  pager 
 
  1.    (Or  "beeper",  bleeper"  (UK?)) 
  A  small  wireless  receiver  that  when  triggered  (generally  via 
  phone),  will  beep  or  vibrate  (un)pleasantly.  The  wearer  will 
  have  been  trained  to  respond  to  this  signal  by  looking  at  a 
  small  screen  on  the  device  for  an  unimportant  message. 
 
  In  recent  years,  pagers  have  grown  more  complex,  allowing  for 
  long  {alphanumeric}  messages  to  be  received  and  scrolled 
  though  (as  opposed  to  earlier  models,  which  supported  only 
  short  numeric  messages);  at  the  same  time  as  pager  functions 
  are  integrated  into  some  {PDA}s.  If  this  trend  continues,  the 
  distinction  between  {PDA}s  and  high-end  {pagers}  will 
  disappear. 
 
  {Short  Message  Service}  allows  a  mobile  phone  to  display  a 
  message,  just  like  an  alphanumeric  pager. 
 
  2.    A  program  for  viewing  a  {text  file}  a  screenful  at  a 
  time  via  a  text  {terminal},  as  opposed  to  scrolling  through  it 
  in  a  {GUI}  window,  or  {cat}ting  it  all  at  once  to  the 
  terminal. 
 
  The  best  known  pagers  are  {more},  {less},  pg  and  list.com. 
 
  (1997-09-11)




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