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The Glossary contains an alphabetical list and description of terms
used in this manual, including abbreviations, acronyms, metric
prefixes, mnemonics, and symbols.
Conventions Used in This Manual
The following conventions are used in this manual.
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a note, which alerts
you to important information.
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a caution, which
advises you of precautions to take to avoid injury, data loss, or a
system crash.
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a warning, which
advises you of precautions to take to avoid being electrically shocked.
bold
Bold text denotes the names of menus, menu items, parameters, dialog
box, dialog box buttons or options, icons, windows, or LEDs.
bold italic
Bold italic text denotes a note, caution, or warning.
bold monospace
Bold text in this font denotes the messages and responses that the
computer automatically prints to the screen. This font also emphasizes
lines of code that are different from the other examples.
IEEE 488 and
IEEE 488 and IEEE 488.2 refer to the ANSI/IEEE Standard
IEEE 488.2
488.1-1987 and ANSI/IEEE Standard 488.2-1987, respectively, which
define the GPIB.
italic
Italic text denotes emphasis, a cross reference, or an introduction to a
key concept. This font also denotes text from which you supply the
appropriate word or value, as in Macintosh System 7.x.
italic monospace
Italic text in this font denotes that you must supply the appropriate
words or values in the place of these items.
monospace
Text in this font denotes text or characters that should literally 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, directories, programs, subprograms, subroutines, device
names, functions, operations, variables, filenames and extensions, and
for statements and comments taken from programs.
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