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Table 1 Typographical conventions
Description Example
User interface actions appear in
this typeface.
On the Status bar, click Start.
Buttons or switches that you
press on a unit appear in this
T
YPEFACE.
Press the ON switch.
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 dialog
box
Variables appear in this type-
face.
Type the new hostname
Book references appear in this
typeface.
Refer to 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 2 Keyboard and menu conventions
Description Example
A plus sign + indicates simultaneous key-
strokes.
Press Ctrl+s
A comma indicates consecutive key strokes. Press Alt+f,s
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