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PAP

(1) (Password Authentication Protocol) An access control protocol for dialing into a network that provides only basic functionality. When the client logs onto the network, the network access server (NAS) requests the username and password from the client and sends it to the authentication server for verification. Since the password is sent over the line unencrypted from the client, it provides password checking, but is not secure from eavesdropping. See CHAP and PPP.

(2) (Printer Access Protocol) A printing protocol for the Macintosh introduced in 1985 by Apple with the advent of its LaserWriter laser printer. It provides bi-directional capability, sending PostScript commands between the printer and the requesting client or server via AppleTalk or over TCP/IP with third-party software. See printing protocol.

pap
1. Scot and northern English dialect a nipple or teat
2. 
a. something resembling a breast or nipple, such as (formerly) one of a pair of rounded hilltops
b. (capital as part of a name): the Pap of Glencoe
1.(networking, protocol, security)PAP - Password Authentication Protocol.
2.(networking, protocol, printer)PAP - Printer Access Protocol.


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So I knowed, then, that this warn't pap, but a woman dressed up in a man's clothes.
Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Twain, Mark View in context
He now gave Mrs Deborah positive orders to take the child to her own bed, and to call up a maid-servant to provide it pap, and other things, against it waked.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
"Try that bone on another dog," said the landlord; "as if I did not know how many make five, and where my shoe pinches me; don't think to feed me with pap, for by God I am no fool.
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
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