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About This Manual
contains information about installing,
configuring, using, and maintaining the NI RMC-8355.
Conventions
The following conventions appear in this manual:
»
The
»
symbol leads you through nested menu items and dialog box options
to a final action. The sequence
Options»Settings»General
directs you to
pull down the
Options
menu, select the
Settings
item, and select
General
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, or a system crash.
When this symbol is marked on a
product, refer to the
Read Me First: Safety and Electromagnetic
Compatibility
for information about 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.
monospace bold
Bold text in this font denotes the messages and responses that the computer
automatically prints to the screen. This font also emphasizes lines of code
that are different from the other examples.
