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Typographic conventions

This document uses the following typographic conventions.

Book Title

Title of a book or other document.

Linked Title

Title that is a hyperlink to a book or other document.

http://www.hp.com

A website address that is a hyperlink to the site.

Command

Command name or qualified command phrase.

user input

Commands and other text that you type.

computer output

Text displayed by the computer.

Enter

The name of a keyboard key. Note that Return and Enter both refer
to the same key. A sequence such as Ctrl+A indicates that you must
hold down the key labeled Ctrl while pressing the A key.

variable

The name of an environment variable, for example PATH or errno.

value

A value that you may replace in a command or function, or
information in a display that represents several possible values.

find(1)

HP-UX manpage. In this example, “find” is the manpage name and
“1” is the manpage section.

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