Chapter 1: Introduction
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Text Conventions Important concepts th ro u ghout this manual are emphasized with these
special text styles:
[Buttons] Function buttons that appear on a screen ar
shown in regular body text and enclosed in
square brackets. For example:
[Close]
[Send]
Commands In command lines, type text that appe ars in
this style exactly as shown:
avdumpdb
BNC OFF
Press the <Return> or <Enter> key afte r all
commands.
Variable
Arguments
Variable arguments are text that you specify.
They are shown in italics. For example:
avaccess
switch_name
In this case, “switch_name” is variable text.
To enter the command, type
avaccess
and then the actual name of the switch.
... Ellipses (...) signify that the preceding argu-
ment can be repeated a number of times. For
example:
cat
filename...
means that you would typ cat followed
by one or more filenames.