Red Hat ENTERPRISE LINUX AS 2.1 Installation Manual page 11

Section 0.1:Document Conventions
$ ls
Desktop
Mail
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,
will be shown in this style. Examples:
$
#
[stephen@maturin stephen]$
leopard login:
user input
Text that the user has to type, 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 will need to type in the text
command at the boot: prompt.
Additionally, we use several different strategies to draw your attention to certain pieces of information.
In order of how critical the information is to your system, these items will be marked as note, tip,
important, caution, or a warning. For example:
Remember that Linux is case sensitive. In other words, a rose is not a ROSE
is not a rOsE.
The directory /usr/share/doc contains additional documentation for
packages installed on your system.
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backupfiles
Note
Tip
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