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About This Manual

Conventions

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IEEE 488 and
IEEE 488.2
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RS-232
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The GPIB-232CV-A User Manual describes the features, functions, and
operation of the GPIB-232CV-A. This manual assumes that you have a
general knowledge of RS-232 serial communications and the General
Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB).
The following conventions appear in this manual:
This icon denotes a caution, which advises you of precautions to take to
avoid injury, data loss, or a system crash.
Bold text denotes items that you must select or click on in the software,
such as menu items and dialog box options. Bold text also denotes
parameter names.
IEEE 488 and IEEE 488.2 refer to the ANSI/IEEE Standard 488.1-1987
and the ANSI/IEEE Standard 488.2-1992, respectively, which define the
GPIB.
Italic text denotes variables, emphasis, a cross reference, 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, and code excerpts.
RS-232 refers to the ANSI/EIA-232-C standard.
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