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Table 2 Typographical conventions
Description Example
User interface actions appear
in this typeface.
On the Status bar, click
Start.Use the Direction char-
acter tag for this convention.
Buttons or switches that you
press on a unit appear in this
T
YPEFACE
.
Press the
O
N
switch.Use the
Switch character tag for this
convention.
Code and output messages
appear in this typeface.
All results okay
Text you must type exactly as
shown appears in this type-
face.
Type: a:\set.exe in the dia-
log box. the CodeDirection
character tag for this conven-
tion.
Variables appear in this type-
face.
Type the new hostname.Use
the Emphasis character tag
for this convention.
Book references appear in
this typeface.
see Newton’s Telecom Dic-
tionary.
A vertical bar | means “or”:
only one option can appear in
a single command.
platform [a|b|e]
Square brackets [ ] indicate
an optional argument.
login [platform name]
Slanted brackets < > group
required arguments.
<password>
Table 3 Keyboard and menu conventions
Description Example
A plus sign + indicates simul-
taneous keystrokes.
Press Ctrl+s
A comma indicates consecu-
tive key strokes.
Press Alt+f,s
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