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Conventions Used in This Guide
These type conventions and symbols are used in this guide:
- Bold
- Keywords and literal command-line arguments (options/flags)
- Helvetica Bold
- Hardware labels
- Italics
- executable names, filenames, glossary entries (online, these show up as underlined), IRIX commands, manual/book titles, new terms, tools, utilities, variable command-line arguments, and variables to be supplied by the user in examples, code, and syntax statements
Fixed-width type
-
Error messages, prompts, and onscreen text
- Bold fixed-width type
-
User input, including keyboard keys (printing and nonprinting); literals supplied by the user in examples, code, and syntax statements (see also <>)
- ALL CAPS
- Environment variables
- ""
- (Double quotation marks) Onscreen menu items and references in text to document section titles
- ()
- (Parentheses) Following IRIX commands--surround reference page (man page) section number
- []
- (Brackets) Surrounding optional syntax statement arguments
- <>
- (Angle brackets) Surrounding nonprinting keyboard keys, for example, <Esc>, <Ctrl-D>
#
- IRIX shell prompt for the superuser (root)
%
- IRIX shell prompt for users other than superuser
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