About This Manual; Conventions - National Instruments GPIB GPIB-ENET/100 Getting Started Manual

About This Manual

Conventions

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© National Instruments Corporation
This manual contains instructions to help you install and configure
the National Instruments GPIB-ENET/100 and NI-488.2 for Mac OS. The
NI-488.2 software included in this kit is intended for use with Mac OS 8.1
or higher with at least 32 MB memory.
This manual assumes that you are familiar with the Mac OS and with
Ethernet and Internet networks, and that your Macintosh is connected
to an Ethernet network. This manual also assumes you have Open
Transport and TCP/IP installed on your Macintosh, which is required
before you can use the driver software for the GPIB-ENET/100.
The following conventions appear in this manual:
This icon denotes a note, which alerts you to important information.
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 names
of utilities, control panels, software folders, parameters, icons, and LEDs.
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, device
names, functions, operations, variables, and code excerpts.
Bold text in this font denotes the messages and responses that the computer
automatically prints to the screen.
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