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CPCI-GPIB/PMC-GPIB for Windows NT
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Conventions Used in This Manual
The following conventions are used in this manual.
»
The » symbol leads you through nested menu items and dialog box
options to a final action. The sequence File»Page
Setup»Options»Substitute Fonts directs you to pull down the File
menu, select the Page Setup item, select Options, and finally select the
Substitute Fonts options from the last dialog box.
bold
Bold text denotes the names of menus, menu items, parameters, dialog
boxes, dialog box buttons or options, icons, windows, or LEDs.
bold italic
Bold italic text denotes a note, caution, or warning.
bold
Bold text in this font denotes the messages and responses that the
monospace
computer automatically prints to the screen. This font also emphasizes
lines of code that are unique 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 the ANSI/IEEE Standard 488.2-1992, 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 for which you supply the appropriate
word or value, as in Windows 3.x.
monospace
Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should literally enter
from the keyboard, sections of code, programming examples, and syntax
examples. This font can also denote 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.
The Glossary lists abbreviations, acronyms, metric prefixes, mnemonics,
symbols, and terms.
