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beeper
bleeper

   1. <hardware, communications> (Or "beeper", "bleeper" (UK?))
   A small wireless receiver that, when triggered (generally via
   phone), will beep or vibrate (un)pleasantly.  The wearer will
   have been trained to respond to this signal by looking at a
   small screen on the device for an unimportant message.

   In recent years, pagers have grown more complex, allowing for
   long {alphanumeric} messages to be received and scrolled
   though (as opposed to earlier models, which supported only
   short numeric messages); at the same time as pager functions
   are integrated into some {PDAs}.  If this trend continues, the
   distinction between {PDAs} and high-end {pagers} will
   disappear.

   {Short Message Service} allows a mobile phone to display a
   message, just like an alphanumeric pager.

   2. <tool> A program for viewing a {text file} a screenful at a
   time via a text {terminal}, as opposed to scrolling through it
   in a {GUI} window, or {cat}ting it all at once to the
   terminal.

   The best known pagers are {more}, {less}, pg and list.com.

   (1997-09-11)