About This Manual; Conventions - National Instruments PXI-1031 User Manual

About This Manual

Conventions

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The NI PXI-1031/PXI-1031DC User Manual contains information about
installing, configuring, using, and maintaining the NI PXI-1031 and
PXI-1031DC chassis.
The following conventions are used in this manual:
The » symbol leads you through nested menu items and dialog box options
to a final action. The sequence File»Page Setup»Options directs you to
pull down the File menu, select the Page Setup item, and select Options
from the last dialog box.
This icon denotes a note, which alerts you to important information.
This icon denotes a caution, which advises you of precautions to take to
avoid injury, data loss, or a system crash. When this symbol is marked on
the product, refer to the Read Me First: Safety and Radio-Frequency
Interference document, shipped with the product, for precautions to take.
Bold text denotes items that you must select or click in the software, such
as menu items and dialog box options. Bold text also denotes parameter
names.
Italic text denotes variables, emphasis, a cross reference, a hardware label,
or an introduction to a key concept. This font also denotes text that is a
placeholder for a word or value that you must supply.
Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should enter from the
keyboard, sections of code, programming examples, and syntax examples.
This font is also used for the proper names of disk drives, paths, directories,
programs, subprograms, subroutines, device names, functions, operations,
variables, filenames, and extensions.
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