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起動元

English translation: parent

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Japanese term or phrase:起動元
English translation:parent
Entered by: Philip Ronan

13:47 Dec 9, 2002
Japanese to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Computers (general) / Computer
Japanese term or phrase: 起動元
XX社のプログラムから別のｅｘｅを起動し、起動元のプログラムは
起動時点でｃｌｏｓｅしているのですが、起動先のｅｘｅの画面が表示されるまで、５〜１０秒程度の時間がかかります。

Can "起動元" be translated as "source of activation" or "source from where activated"? Is there any specifiec term for this?
Anu
Local time: 03:45
parent
Explanation:
When one program causes another to be loaded and executed, this process is called "spawning". The original program is called the "parent" program, and the program is starts up is called the "child" program.

起動元のプログラム = "parent program"
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Philip Ronan
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:15
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4basic startup
jerryk (X)
5 -1parent
Philip Ronan
1caller
Maynard Hogg


  

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basic startup


Explanation:
hp basic startup service (PDF) - Page 1. hp services technical data hp basic startup service hp basic startup service have your new enterprise servers pre-configured for faster, easier onsite ...
http://www.hp.com/hps/briefs/su_basic_ds.pdf search within this site


GNU Wget Manual - Basic Startup Options - Go to the first, previous, next, last section, table of contents. Basic Startup Options. `-V' `--version' Display the version of Wget. ...
http://www.gnu.org/manual/wget-1.8.1/html_node/wget_5.html search within this site


Basic Startup with a Nikon 995 Digital Camera - ... camera. When you purchase a digital camera, the factory settings will most likely be designated to the most basic, or Automatic modes. ...
http://www.webphotoschool.com/wps/lessons/nikon995/ search within this site


Visual Basic: Startup-directory - ... I want to change the startup-directory of an shortcut on the desktop created during ... just implement an API-call for these things, it's such a basic task!), but ...
http://www.experts-


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Note added at 2002-12-09 18:34:47 (GMT)
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probably \"startup source\", actually.

Embedded systems hardware and software development and computer ... - ... Feel free to download a copy of a typical PDREMOTE startup source file for an SC400. This startup source file gets the CPU under ...
http://www.chipcenter.com/circuitcellar/march00/c0300lt2.htm search within this site


FYI: AC_SUBST in config.log! - ... | Loading 35elib-startup (source)... | Loading 42hyperlatex... ... | Loading 50oo-browser (source)... | Loading 50pcl-cvs-startup (source)... ...
http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/autoconf-patches/2002-April/00... search within this site


Re: A little disappointment - ... After that, it\'s optimizing the startup source code itself. ... Do note that I\'m just another non-developer, I haven\'t even read the KDE startup source code yet... ...
http://dot.kde.org/998062776/998433079/998655441/ search within this site




jerryk (X)
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agree  amit vats
15 hrs
  -> thanks!
disagree  jsl (X): I don't understand why "basic" is realted to "元".
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4 hrs   confidence: Answerer confidence 5/5 peer agreement (net): -1
parent


Explanation:
When one program causes another to be loaded and executed, this process is called "spawning". The original program is called the "parent" program, and the program is starts up is called the "child" program.

起動元のプログラム = "parent program"


    Reference: http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=child+parent+program+spawn+...
Philip Ronan
United Kingdom
Local time: 23:15
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Thanks all of you, for the reply!

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disagree  Maynard Hogg: There are other possibilities--fork, for example.
5 hrs
  -> Excuse me, but why does that mean this is the wrong answer?? Besides, "fork" seems to be a term used more often in UNIX than Windows. Could you please explain your position.
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caller


Explanation:
起動 has many meanings in Japanese besides "start"--boot and call, for example.

I cannot be more specific because ProZ posts are all 文字化け this morning.

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Note added at 2002-12-12 01:19:00 (GMT)
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Much as one would like to use ¥"runner.¥"(grin)

For one Windoze program to run/launch another, it has to call a function--e.g., a member of the spawn...() family (although there are others)--with the name of the program, command line arguments, etc.

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Note added at 2002-12-12 01:26:35 (GMT)
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¥"When one program runs another with the first program¥'s window closed(?), it take a few seconds for the second program¥'s window to appear.¥"

I don¥'t see any necessity to take the Japanese ¥"source¥" and ¥"destination/target¥" bits too seriously. ¥"First¥" and ¥"second¥" make much better English.

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Note added at 2002-12-12 01:57:19 (GMT)
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The Windows API provides the function CreateProcess() for ¥"starting¥" other programs.

The spawn...() family is C/C++.

Maynard Hogg
Canada
Local time: 15:15
Works in field
Native speaker of: English
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