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The purpose of this article is to study and investigate e_c-filters on X and e_c-ideals in C^*_c (X) in which they are in fact the counterparts of z_c-filters on X and z_c-ideals in C_c(X) respectively. We show that the maximal ideals of C^*_c (X) are in one-to-one correspondence with the e_c-ultrafilters on X. In addition, the sets of e_c-ultrafilters and z_c-ultrafilters are in one-to-one correspondence. It is also shown that the sets of maximal ideals of C_c(X) and C^*_c (X) have the same cardinality. As another application of the new concepts, we characterized maximal ideals of C^*_c (X). Finally, we show that whether the space X is compact, a proper ideal I of C_c(X) is an e_c-ideal if and only if it is a closed ideal in C_c(X) if and only if it is an intersection of maximal ideals of C_c(X).