A division on a disk which has a name and generally contains a number of files that which belongs together. Directories are placed hierarchically in tree form (with branches and sub-branches) and can be presented in this form on a certain program level like that found in Corpus Presenter when you are selecting a file to load. In Windows the word ‘folder’ is time and again used for ‘directory’. There is a separate level for directory lists in the programs of the Corpus Presenter suite.

In all the functions we have seen, the arguments passed to the functions have been passed by value. This means that when calling a function with parameters, what we have passed to the function were copies of their values however never the variables themselves. For instance, suppose that we called our first function addition using the following code:

int x=5, y=3, z;

z = addition ( x , y );

What we did in this case was to call to function addition passing the values of x and y, i.e. 5 and 3 respectively, but not the variables x and y themselves.


The Magnetic Disk is Flat, round platter with metallic coating that is rotated beneath read/write heads. It is a Random access device; read/write head can be moved to some place on the platter.

A memory device, like a floppy disk, a hard disk, or a removable cartridge, that is covered with a magnetic coating on which digital information is stored in the type of microscopically small, magnetized needles.

A function prototype in c or C++ is a declaration of a function that omits the function body but does specify the function's name, arity, argument types and return type. While a function definition specifies what a function does, a function prototype can be thought of as specifying its interface.

An example of function prototype:

int fac(int n);

This prototype specifies that in this program, there is a function named "fac" which takes a single integer argument "n" and returns an integer. In another place, the program a function definition must be provided if one wishes to make use of this function.

An intranet is a set of organized networks, using the Internet Protocol and uses IP-based tools like web browsers and ftp tools, which are under the control of a single directorial entity. That administrative entity closes the intranet to the rest of the earth, and allows only detailed users. Most normally, an intranet is the internal network of a company or other enterprise. A big intranet will characteristically have its own web server to offer users with browseable information.