DELL 2000 Reference Guide

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The following list defines (where appropriate) and illustrates typographical               
conventions 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, the labeling that appears on the keys on a keyboard, are enclosed in 
angle brackets.

Example: <Enter>

Key combinations are series of keys to be pressed simultaneously (unless       
otherwise indicated) to perform a single function.

Example: <Ctrl><Alt><Enter>

Commands presented in lowercase bold are for reference purposes only and are 
not intended to be typed at that particular point in the discussion.     

Example: “Use the setup command to . . . .”

In contrast, commands presented in the Courier New font are intended to be 
typed as part of an instruction. 

Example: “Type

 to format the diskette in drive A.”

Filenames and directory names are presented in lowercase bold. 

Examples: autoexec.bat and c:\windows

Syntax lines consist of a command and all its possible parameters. Commands 
are displayed in lowercase bold; variable parameters (those for which you        
substitute a value) are displayed in lowercase italics; constant parameters are   
displayed in lowercase bold. The brackets indicate items that are optional. 

Example: del [drive:] [[path]filename] [/p]

Command lines consist of a command and may include one or more of the     
command’s possible parameters. Command lines are presented in the Courier 
New font. 

Example: