Conventions Used In This Manual - National Instruments PC/104-GPIB Manual

Conventions Used in This Manual

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IEEE 488 and
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The following conventions appear 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»Substitute
Fonts directs you to pull down the File menu, select the Page Setup item,
select Options , and finally select the Substitute Fonts option from the last
dialog box.
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a note, which alerts
you to important information.
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a caution, which
advises you of precautions to take to avoid injury, data loss, or a
system crash.
Bold text denotes the names of menus, menu items, parameters, dialog
boxes, dialog box buttons or options, icons, windows, or LEDs.
Bold text in this font denotes the messages and responses that the
computer automatically prints to the screen. This font also emphasizes
lines of code that are different from the other examples.
Bold italic text denotes a note, caution, or warning.
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 emphasis, a cross reference, or an introduction to a
key concept. This font also denotes text for which you supply the
appropriate word or value.
Italic text in this font denotes that you must supply the appropriate
words or values in place of these items.
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 can also denote the proper names of disk drives,
paths, directories, programs, subprograms, subroutines, device names,
functions, operations, variables, file names and extensions, and for
statements and comments taken from programs.
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PC/104-GPIB for Windows 95