Conventions Used in This Book

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The following typographical conventions are used in this book:


Italic

Used to indicate new terms, URLs, filenames, file extensions, directories, commands and options, program names , and to highlight comments in examples. For example, a path in the filesystem will appear as /Applications/Utilities .


Constant Width

Used to show the contents of files or the output from commands.


  Constant Width Bold  

Used in examples and tables to show commands or other text that should be typed literally by the user .


Constant Width Italic

Used in examples and tables to show text that should be replaced with user-supplied values.


Menus /Navigation

Menus and their options are referred to in the text as File Open , Edit Copy, etc. Arrows will also be used to signify a navigation path when using window options; for example, System Preferences Desktop & Screen Saver Screen Saver means that you would launch System Preferences, click on the icon for the Desktop & Screen Saver preferences panel, and then select the Screen Saver pane within that panel.


Pathnames

Pathnames are used to show the location of a file or application in the filesystem. Directories (or folders for Mac and Windows users) are separated by a forward slash. For example, if you see something like, "...launch the Terminal application ( /Applications/Utilities )" in the text, that means the Terminal application can be found in the Utilities subfolder of the Applications folder.


figs/crarr.gif

A carriage return ( figs/crarr.gif ) at the end of a line of code is used to denote an unnatural line break; that is, you should not enter these as two lines of code, but as one continuous line. Multiple lines are used in these cases due to printing constraints.


$ , #

The dollar sign ( $ ) is used in some examples to show the user prompt for the bash shell; the hash mark ( # ) is the prompt for the root user.


Menu Symbols

When looking at the menus for any application, you will see some symbols associated with keyboard shortcuts for a particular command. For example, to open a document in Microsoft Word, you could go to the File menu and select Open (File Open), or you could issue the keyboard shortcut, z-O.

Figure P-1 shows the symbols used in the various menus to denote a shortcut.

Figure P-2. Keyboard accelerators for issuing commands.
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Rarely will you see the Control symbol used as a menu command option; it's more often used in association with mouse clicks or for working with the tcsh shell.

Indicates a tip, suggestion, or general note.


Indicates a warning or caution.


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Inside .Mac
Inside .Mac
ISBN: 0596005016
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2004
Pages: 132
Authors: Chuck Toporek

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