Patton electronic 4630 Typographical conventions used in this document, General conventions

Table 1. General conventions

Convention

Meaning

Garamond blue type

Indicates a cross-reference hyperlink that points to a figure, graphic, table, or sec-

tion heading. Clicking on the hyperlink jumps you to the reference. When you

have finished reviewing the reference, click on the Go to Previous View

button

in the Adobe® Acrobat® Reader toolbar to return to your starting point.

Futura bold type

Commands and keywords are in boldface font.

Futura bold-italic type

Parts of commands, which are related to elements already named by the user, are

in boldface italic font.

Italicized Futura type

Variables for which you supply values are in italic font

Futura type

Indicates the names of fields or windows.

Garamond bold type

Indicates the names of command buttons that execute an action.

< >

Angle brackets indicate function and keyboard keys, such as <SHIFT>, <CTRL>,

<C>, and so on.

[ ]

Elements in square brackets are optional.

{a b c}

Alternative but required keywords are grouped in braces ({ }) and are separated

by vertical bars ( )

screen

Terminal sessions and information the system displays are in screen font.

node

The leading IP address or nodename of a SmartNode is substituted with node in

boldface italic font.

SN

The leading SN on a command line represents the nodename of the SmartNode

#

An hash sign at the beginning of a line indicates a comment line.