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Typographic Conventions
The following conventions are used throughout this manual:
Text Conventions
Syntax Conventions
italic Identifies book titles.
bold Identifies options, command buttons, and menu
items.
fixed width Identifies file names, system prompts, operating
system commands, and UNIX error and system
messages.
italic fixed width Identifies variables that you need to replace
according to your environment.
bold fixed
width
Identifies the default in a series of parameters.
| Separates mutually exclusive parameters; only
one of the parameters separated by the bar is
allowed.
[ ] Indicate that the enclosed parameters are
optional.
{ } Indicate that only one of the enclosed parameters
are required.
\ Indicates that a command line, parameter, or code
continues on the following line.
# Precedes a UNIX command that must be
performed as a root user.
% Precedes a UNIX command that must be
performed as an ordinary user.
