Conventions Used in This Guide

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C++ class names, C++ member functions, C++ data members, function names, language keywords and data types, literal command-line arguments (options/flags), nonalphabetic data types, operators, and subroutines.

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Hardware labels

Italics

Backus-Naur Form entries, command monitor commands, executable names, filenames, glossary entries (online, these show up as underlined), IRIX commands, manual/book titles, new terms, onscreen button names, program variables, tools, utilities, variable command-line arguments, variable coordinates, and variables to be supplied by the user in examples, code, and syntax statements

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Error messages, prompts, and onscreen text

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User input, including keyboard keys (printing and nonprinting); literals supplied by the user in examples, code, and syntax statements (see also <>)

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Environment variables, operator names, directives, defined constants, macros in C programs

""

(Double quotation marks) Onscreen menu items and references in text to document section titles

()

(Parentheses) Following function names--surround function arguments or are empty if the function has no arguments; 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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Command Monitor prompt