DDK Glossary - F
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- Far call
- Code that calls from one segment into another segment.
- fillet
- An arc that is tangential to the end points of two adjacent lines. See also polyfillet.
- filter adapter device driver
- A special class of adapter device drivers that do not manage the hardware directly, but monitor the stream of commands between a device manager and an adapter device driver. See Device Manager and adapter device driver.
- first-party DMA adapter
- See bus master adapter.
- flag
- A characteristic of a file or directory that enables it to be used in certain ways. See also archive flag, hidden flag, and read-only flag.
- flat address
- See linear address.
- frame styles
- Standard window layouts provided by the Presentation Manager.
- freeze and thaw services
- Functions that prevent a DOS session from executing (VDHFreezeVDM) until the matching thaw function (VDHThawVDM) is called. The freeze occurs when the specified DOS session leaves kernel mode.