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Typographical conventions – Dell PowerVault 735N (Rackmount NAS Appliance) User Manual

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The

Dell PowerVault 735N Systems Service Manual

, which contains detailed

information on servicing your system. This is available only at
http://support.dell.com.

You may also have one or more of the following documents:

Documentation that is included with options you purchase separately from the
system. This documentation includes information that you need to configure and
install these options in your Dell system.

Technical information files—sometimes called “readme” files—that might be
installed on the hard-disk drive to provide last-minute updates about technical
changes to the system or advanced technical reference material intended for
experienced users or technicians.

Documentation updates that are sometimes included with the system to
describe changes to the system or software. Always read these updates before
consulting any other documentation. These updates often contain information
that supersedes the information in the other documents.

Typographical Conventions

The following list defines (where appropriate) and illustrates typographical conven-
tions used as visual cues for specific elements of text throughout this document:

Interface components

are window titles, button and icon names, menu names

and selections, and other options that appear on the monitor screen or display.
They are presented in bold.

Example: Click OK.

Keycaps

are labels that appear on the keys on a keyboard. They are enclosed in

angle brackets.

Example:

Key combinations

are series of keys to be pressed simultaneously (unless other-

wise indicated) to perform a single function.

Example:

Commands

presented in lowercase bold are for reference purposes only and are

not intended to be typed when referenced.

Example: “Use the format command to . . . .“

In contrast, commands presented in the Courier New font are part of an instruc-
tion and intended to be typed.

Example: “Type

format a: to format the diskette in drive A.“

Filenames

and

directory names

are presented in lowercase bold.

Examples: autoexec.bat and c:\windows

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