Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX 5 - DEPLOYMENT Deployment Manual page 25

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computer output
Text in this style indicates text displayed to a shell prompt such as error messages and responses
to commands. For example:
The ls command displays the contents of a directory. For example:
Desktop about.html
Mail backupfiles
The output returned in response to the command (in this case, the contents of the directory) is
shown in this style.
prompt
A prompt, which is a computer's way of signifying that it is ready for you to input something, is
shown in this style. Examples:
$
#
[stephen@maturin stephen]$
leopard login:
user input
Text that the user types, either on the command line or into a text box on a GUI screen, is
displayed in this style. In the following example, text is displayed in this style:
To boot your system into the text based installation program, you must type in the text command
at the boot: prompt.
<replaceable>
Text used in examples that is meant to be replaced with data provided by the user is displayed in
this style. In the following example, <version-number> is displayed in this style:
The directory for the kernel source is /usr/src/kernels/<version-number>/, where
<version-number> is the version and type of kernel installed on this system.
Additionally, we use several different strategies to draw your attention to certain pieces of information.
In order of urgency, these items are marked as a note, tip, important, caution, or warning. For
example:
Note
Remember that Linux is case sensitive. In other words, a rose is not a ROSE is not a
rOsE.
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