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(1) An e-mail that contains text and possibly other file attachments. See e-mail. (2) Any set of transmitted data. Just as a program becomes a job when it runs in the computer, data becomes a...
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Definition: message
(1) An e-mail that contains text and possibly other file attachments. See e-mail.
(2) Any set of transmitted data. Just as a program becomes a job when it runs in the computer, data becomes a message when it is transmitted over a network.
(3) In object technology, communicating between objects, similar to a function call in traditional programming.
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