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Access Date - In the Windows file systems it is the later of the dates on which a file was created or last accessed for reading. The VFAT and NTFS file systems save this file property.

Access Time - In the Windows file systems it is the time of day when the latter of the events of creating the file or last accessing the file for reading occurred. NTFS saves this file property.

Advanced Power Management (APM) - A standardized system used by manufacturers of battery-powered computers to control system power management, including shutdown of unused components or of the entire system based on usage patterns. APM can also report the source of system power (AC or battery), the battery status, and the remaining battery life.

Age - A special term used by the Take Command documentation to reference one of its methods to represent points in time (epochs). An age is the time elapsed since 1601-01-01 00:00:00 (local time) as a multiple of 100 ns.

Alias - A TCC feature which allows you to create shorthand name for a command or series of commands. For details see Aliases.

Alias Parameter - A numbered variable (e.g. %2) included in an alias definition, allowing a different value to be used in the alias each time it is executed.

American National Standards Institute (ANSI) - An organization which sets voluntary standards for a large variety of industrial products from boilers to photographic films, including computer-related systems, and is the U.S.A. representative in ISO. It is composed of various professional organizations, including EIA and IEEE, many of which also define standards.

AND - A logical combination of two true or false conditions. The result is true if and only if both conditions are true, otherwise it is false. See the table below.

condition 1	condition 2	result
false	false	false
false	true	false
true	false	false
true	true	true

ANSI X3.64 - A standard specifying sequences of characters which control colors on the screen, manipulate the cursor and screen contents, and redefine keys. TCC includes support for a selected subset. This support may be enabled or disabled at any time. For more details see ANSI X3.64 Command Reference.

Application - A program run from the command prompt or a batch file. Used broadly to mean any program other than Take Command itself; and more narrowly to mean a program with a specific purpose such as a spreadsheet or word processing program, as opposed to a utility.

1) A file attribute indicating that the file has been modified since the last backup (most backup programs clear this attribute).

2) A single file (such as a .ZIP file) which contains a number of other files, optionally in compressed form.

ASCII - Acronym for American National Standard Code for Information Interchange, defined in the standard ANSI INCITS 4-1986 (R1997) Information Systems - Coded Character Sets - 7-Bit American National Standard Code for Information Interchange (7-Bit ASCII) (formerly ANSI X3.4-1986 (R1997)). This standard specifies a set of 128 characters (control characters and graphics characters such as letters, digits, and symbols) with their coded representation for use in information interchange among information processing systems, communication systems, and associated equipment. See ASCII file.

ASCII File - A file containing ASCII text, as opposed to a binary file which may contain numbers, or other information that cannot be sensibly interpreted as text. Often used in place of text file.

Attribute - A property, or indication of a property, of a file which may be set (present) or cleared (absent). Most attributes can be changed, but some cannot. The standard modifiable attributes are Read-Only, Hidden, System, and Archive. Unmodifiable attributes include Directory and Volume Label.

Automatic Directory Change - A TCC feature which allows you to change directories by typing the directory name terminated in a backslash [\] at the command prompt, without first entering a command.