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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>green bytes</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../G.html" title="G"/><link rel="previous" href="great-wall.html" title="great-wall"/><link rel="next" href="green-card.html" title="green card"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">green bytes</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="great-wall.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><th width="60%" align="center">G</th><td width="20%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="green-card.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="green-bytes"/><dt xmlns="" id="green-bytes"><b>green bytes</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> (also <span class="firstterm">green words</span>) </p></dd><dd><p> 1. Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the
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file or its name; as opposed to keeping such information in a separate
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description file or record. The term comes from an IBM user's group
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meeting (ca. 1962) at which these two approaches were being debated and the
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diagram of the file on the blackboard had the <span class="firstterm">green bytes</span> drawn in green. </p></dd><dd><p> 2. By extension, the non-data bits in any self-describing format.
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“<span class="quote">A GIF file contains, among other things, green bytes describing the
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packing method for the image.</span>” Compare
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<a href="../O/out-of-band.html"><i class="glossterm">out-of-band</i></a>, <a href="../Z/zigamorph.html"><i class="glossterm">zigamorph</i></a>,
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<a href="../F/fence.html"><i class="glossterm">fence</i></a> (sense 1).</p></dd><div class="navfooter"><hr/><table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"><tr><td width="40%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="great-wall.html">Prev</a><EFBFBD></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="u" href="../G.html">Up</a></td><td width="40%" align="right"><EFBFBD><a accesskey="n" href="green-card.html">Next</a></td></tr><tr><td width="40%" align="left" valign="top">great-wall<6C></td><td width="20%" align="center"><a accesskey="h" href="../index.html">Home</a></td><td width="40%" align="right" valign="top"><EFBFBD>green card</td></tr></table></div></body></html>
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