Preface
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© National Instruments Corp.
Conventions Used in This Manual
The following conventions are used throughout this manual.
enter
Reserved to mean that the commands
immediately succeeding the word must be typed
into the computer, and then executed by pressing
the <Return> key on the keyboard.
GPIB-1014
Refers to any National Instruments VME -to-
IEEE 488 interface board including the
GPIB -1014, GPIB-1014D, GPIB-1014DP, and
GPIB-1014P.
italic
Italic text denotes emphasis, a cross reference, or
an introduction to a key concept.
monospace
Lowercase text in this font denotes text or
characters that are to be literally input from the
keyboard, sections of code, programming
examples, and syntax examples. This font is also
used for the proper names of disk drives, paths,
directories, programs, subprograms, subroutines,
device names, functions, variables, filenames,
and extensions, and for statements and comments
taken from program code.
Motorola UNIX
Refers to the SYS/V68 release 3 version 5.1
Operating System.
Abbreviations
The following abbreviations for units of measure are used in this manual:
A
amperes
Hz
hertz
in.
inches
kbytes
1,024 bytes
M
megabytes of memory
M-
mega- (10
6
)
m
meter s
