Conventions
The followingconventions are used in this manual:
»The»symbol leads you through nested menu items and dial og box options
to a finalaction. Th e sequence File»Page Setup»Options directs you to
pull downthe File menu, select the Page Setup item, and select Options
from the last dialog box.
This icon denotes a note, which alerts you to important information.
This icon denotes a caution, which advises you of precautions to take to
avoidinjury, data loss, or a system crash.
This icon denotes a warning,which advises you of precautions to take to
avoidbeing electrically shocked.
bold Bold textden otes items that you must select or click on in the software,
such asm enu items and dialog box options. Bold text also denotes
parameter names.
italic Italictext denotes variables, emphasis, a cross reference, or an introduction
toa key concept. This font also denotes text that is a placeholder for a word
orvalue that you must supply.
monospace Textin this font denotes text or characters that you should enter from the
keyboard,sections of code, programming examples, and syntax examples.
Thisfont is also used for the proper names of disk drives, paths, directories,
programs,subprograms, subroutines, device names, functions, operations,
variables,filenames and extensions, and code excerpts.
monospace bold Boldtext in this font denotes the messages and responses that the computer
automatically prints to the screen. This font also emphasizes lines of code
thatare d ifferentfrom the other examples.
SCXI-119XRefers to the SCXI-1190 module, the SCXI-1191 module, and the
SCXI-1192 module.