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About This Manual
describes the features of the NI PXI-8250,
and contains information about configuring and operating the hardware.
Conventions
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
directs you to
pull down the
File
menu, select the
Page Setup
item, and select
Options
from the last dialog box.
This icon denotes a note, which alerts you to important information.
This icon denotes a caution, which advises you of precautions to take to
avoid injury, data loss, system crash, product damage, or product
malfunction. When this symbol is marked on the product, refer to the
Read
Me First: Safety and Radio-Frequency Interference
document, shipped
with the product, for precautions to take.
bold
Bold text denotes items that you must select or click in the software, such
as menu items and dialog box options. Bold text also denotes parameter
names.
italic
Italic text denotes variables, emphasis, a cross-reference, or an introduction
to a key concept. Italic text also denotes text that is a placeholder for a word
or value that you must supply.
monospace
Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should 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.
NI PXI-1042/1042Q
NI PXI-1042/1042Q indicates that either an NI PXI-1042 or
NI PXI-1042Q chassis may be used. When the NI PXI-1042Q chassis is
referred to alone in the text, then the text is not relevant to the NI PXI-1042
chassis.
