User Input - Red Hat NETWORK 4.1.0 Reference Manual

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top level of a menu on a GUI screen or window
A word in this style indicates that the word is the top level of a pulldown menu. If you
click on the word on the GUI screen, the rest of the menu should appear. For example:
Under File on a GNOME terminal, the New Tab option allows you to open multiple
shell prompts in the same window.
Instructions to type in a sequence of commands from a GUI menu look like the fol-
lowing example:
Go to Applications (the main menu on the panel) => Programming => Emacs Text
Editor to start the Emacs text editor.
button on a GUI screen or window
This style indicates that the text can be found on a clickable button on a GUI screen.
For example:
Click on the Back button to return to the webpage you last viewed.
computer output
Text in this style indicates text displayed to a shell prompt such as error messages and
responses to commands. For example:
The command displays the contents of a directory. For example:
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, 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
about.html
backupfiles
prompt.
boot:
logs paulwesterberg.png
mail reports
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