Red Hat GFS 6.1 -, Administrator'S Manual

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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
ls
command displays the contents of a directory. For example:
Desktop about.html logs paulwesterberg.png
Mail backupfiles mail reports
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
boot:
prompt.
replaceable
Text used in examples that is meant to be replaced with data provided by the user
is displayed in this style. In the following example,
version-number
is dis-
played in this style:
The directory for the kernel source is
/usr/src/kernels/
version-number
/
,
where
version-number
is the version and type of kernel installed on this
system.
Additionally, we use several different strategies to draw your attention to certain pieces of
information. In order of urgency, these items are marked as a note, tip, important, caution,
or warning. For example: