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Typographical Conventions
The following list defines (where appropriate) and illustrates typographical conven-
tions used as visual cues for specific elements of text throughout this document:
•Interface components are window titles, button and icon names, menu names
and selections, and other options that appear on the monitor screen or display.
They are presented in bold.
Example: Click OK.
•Keycaps, the labeling that appears on the keys on a keyboard, are enclosed in
angle brackets.
Example: <Enter>
•Key combinations are series of keys to be pressed simult aneously (unless
otherwise indicated) to perform a single function.
Example: <Ctrl><Alt><Enter>
•Commands presented in lowercase bold are for reference purposes only and are
not intended to be typed at that particular point in the discussion.
Example: “Use the setup command to....”
In contrast, commands presented in the Courier New font are intended to be
typed as part of an instruction.
Example: “Type format to format the diskette in drive A.”
•Filenames and directory names are presented in lowercase bold.
Examples: autoexec.bat and c:\windows
•Syntax l ines consist of a command and all its possible parameters. Commands
are displayed in lowercase bold; variable parameters (those for which you substi-
tute a value) are displayed in lowercase italics; constant parameters are displayed
in lowercase bold. The brackets indicate items that are optional.
Example: del [drive:] [[path]filename] [/p]
•Command lines consist of a command and may include one or more of the com-
mand’s possible parameters. Command lines are presented in the Courier New
font.
Example: del c:\myfile.doc
•Screen text is text that appears on the screen of your display or external monitor.
It can be a system message, for example, or it can be text that you are instructed
to type as part of a command (referred to as a command line). Screen text is pre-
sented in the Courier New font.
Example: The following message appears on your screen:
No boot device available
•Variables are symbols for which you substitute a value. They are presented in
italics.
Example: module n (where n represents the memory module number).
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