About Your Cd-Rom; Conventions - 3Com 4500 Getting Started Manual

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BOUT HIS UIDE

About Your CD-ROM

Conventions

The CD-ROM contains the following:
Online documentation for the Switch 4500 — refer to Related
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Documentation on page 9 for details.
A link to 3Com Network Director software.
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A number of other useful links.
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Most user guides and release notes are available in Adobe Acrobat
Reader Portable Document Format (PDF) or HTML on the 3Com
World Wide Web site:
http://www.3com.com/
Table 1 and Table 2 list conventions that are used throughout this guide.
Table 1 Notice Icons
Icon Notice Type
Information note
Caution
Warning
Table 2 Text Conventions
Convention
Screen displays This typeface represents information as it appears on the
Syntax
Commands
Description
Information that describes important features or
instructions
Information that alerts you to potential loss of data or
potential damage to an application, system, or device
Information that alerts you to potential personal injury
Description
screen.
The word "syntax" means that you must evaluate the syntax
provided and then supply the appropriate values for the
placeholders that appear in angle brackets. Example:
To change your password, use the following syntax:
system password <password>
In this example, you must supply a password for <password>.
The word "command" means that you must enter the
command exactly as shown and then press Return or Enter.
Commands appear in bold. Example:
To display IP information, enter the following command:
display ip interface br