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shell account

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shell account [′shel ə‚kau̇nt]
(computer science)
A type of limited access to the Internet in which the user is connected to the Internet indirectly through a second computer on which the user has established an account.


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UNIX Shell Account Filters Those who have never used a shell account are probably unfamiliar with the term.
It seems the company regrets that it offered me a so-called Unix shell account several years ago and now wishes me to cancel it and sign up for the more profitable (to them) Netcruiser service.
There are even browsers that let you work through an ASCII-only shell account and view in multimedia (SLIPknot and I-Comm, in particular).
 
 
 
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