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Section 0.1:Document Conventions vii
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computer output
When you see text in this style, it indicates text displayed by the computer on the command
line. You’ll see responses to commands you typed in, error messages and interactive prompts
for your input during scripts or programs shown this way. For example:
Use the
ls
to display the contents of a directory:
$ ls
Desktop
axhome logs paulwesterberg.gif
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,
will be shown in this style. Examples:
$
#
[stephen@maturin stephen]$
leopard login:
user input
Text that the user has to type, 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 will need to type in the
text
command at the
boot:
prompt.
Another example, with the word root displayed as something the user needs to type in:
If you need to log in as root when you first log into your system, and you are using the graphical
login screen, at the
Login
prompt, type
root
. At the
Password
prompt, type in the root
password.
glossary entry
A word that appears in the glossary will be shown in the body of the document in this style. For
example:
The lpd daemon handles printing requests.