URL A URL, or Universal Resource Locator, is an address that can be used by any modern communications program to find something. A URL can point to a World Wide Web server, a telnet location, or an e-mail address, among other things. Visar Visar is a UNIX machine here at Washington University. Many of the folks in Pulmonary used to have e-mail accounts on Visar. Wrap Wrapping text means to place any text that will not fit on one line onto the next line.
Word processors wrap all lines of text to fit within the specified margins.
E-mail packages, such as Eudora, usually wrap text in such a way that, when it is sent, no line is longer than 80 characters.