Various departments offer you the ability to request services or ask a question through the RIT computer network. The asterisk is used most commonly to replace a character or group of characters. For example when specifying all or part of a file's name. The bang often indicates special action. An electronic message center.
Most bulletin boards serve specific interest groups.
They allow you to view messages posted by others and leave your own message if you want. Binary is often used in the context of file transfers. A binary transfer preserves such characteristics as bolding and underlining when transferring a word processing file. Binary codes are specific to machines. This means, for example, a file transferred in binary format from an IBM PC is not readable on a UNIX system.