National Instruments NI-DNET - Manual (Page 8)

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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 File»Page Setup»Options directs you to
open 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.
bold Bold text denotes items that you must select or click on 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. This font 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.
Related Documentation
The following documents contain information that you might find helpful
as you read this manual:
• ANSI/ISO Standard 11898-1993, Road Vehicles—Interchange of
Digital Information—Controller Area Network (CAN) for High-Speed
Communication
• DeviceNet Specification, Version 2.0, Open DeviceNet Vendor
Association
• CompactPCI Specification, Revision 2.0, PCI Industrial Computers
Manufacturers Group
• PXI Hardware Specification, Revision 2.1, National Instruments
Corporation
• PXI Software Specification, Revision 2.1, National Instruments
Corporation