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.