EMC Connectrix B Series DS-300B Hardware Reference Manual
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Preface
An important notice contains information essential to operation of 
the software. 
A warning contains information essential to avoid a hazard that can 
cause severe personal injury, death, or substantial property damage 
if you ignore the warning.
A danger notice contains information essential to avoid a hazard 
that will cause severe personal injury, death, or substantial property 
damage if you ignore the message.
Typographical conventions
EMC uses the following type style conventions in this document:
Normal
Used in running (nonprocedural) text for:
• Names of interface elements (such as names of windows, 
dialog boxes, buttons, fields, and menus)
• Names of resources, attributes, pools, Boolean expressions, 
buttons, DQL statements, keywords, clauses, environment 
variables, functions, utilities
• URLs, pathnames, filenames, directory names, computer 
names, filenames, links, groups, service keys, file systems, 
notifications
Bold Used in running (nonprocedural) text for:
• Names of commands, daemons, options, programs, 
processes, services, applications, utilities, kernels, 
notifications, system calls, man pages
Used in procedures for:
• Names of interface elements (such as names of windows, 
dialog boxes, buttons, fields, and menus)
• What user specifically selects, clicks, presses, or types
Italic
Used in all text (including procedures) for:
• Full titles of publications referenced in text
• Emphasis (for example a new term)
• Variables