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 guacd is the Guacamole proxy daemon used by the Guacamole web application and
 framework. As JavaScript cannot handle binary protocols (like VNC and remote
-desktop) efficiently, a new test-based protocol was developed which would
+desktop) efficiently, a new text-based protocol was developed which would
 contain a common superset of the operations needed for efficient remote desktop
 access, but would be easy for JavaScript programs to process. guacd is the
 proxy which translates between arbitrary protocols and the Guacamole protocol.