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In article <4k99tb$ll9@news.aloha.com> lo@kokee.hawaiian.net (Lopaka) writes:
>   Hello, anyone have a few moments to explain these two net
> terms? They aren't in the books that I have.

Demon and daemon are more or less synonymous, and also more or less synonymous
with server program.  For example, the SMTP daemon is the process you're
talking to when you're talking to the SMTP port on your ISP to send mail, and
likewise with POP, NNTP, FTP, etc.

Also, a daemon can refer to any background process that provides a service,
even if it doesn't serve data *to* the client.  For example, multi-user
systems such as Unix have a printer daemon that's in charge of the printer
queue.

Basically it's a process that lurks around until someone invokes it, hence
the name.

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