2 Required Background
Several assumptions have been made concerning your background knowledge when
writing this document.
• You are familiar with IBM System z terminology.
• You have a good knowledge of the IBM System z devices attached to your system,
especially its network environment.
• You have a basic understanding of handling a Linux or Unix system.
3 Documentation Conventions
The following typographical conventions are used in this manual:
•
/etc/passwd
: filenames and directory names
•
placeholder
: replace
placeholder
with the actual value
•
PATH
: the environment variable PATH
•
ls
,
--help
: commands, options, and parameters
•
user
: users or groups
•
Alt
,
Alt
+
F1
: a key to press or a key combination; keys are shown in uppercase as
on a keyboard
• File, File > Save As: menu items, buttons
• This paragraph is only relevant for the specified architectures. The arrows mark
the beginning and the end of the text block.
• Dancing Penguins (Chapter Penguins, ↑Another Manual): This is a reference to a
chapter in another manual.
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Architecture-Specific Information
