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Conventions
The following conventions are used in this manual:
Ctrl/ x Indicates that you must hold down the key labeled Ctrl
while you press another key or a pointing device button.
PF1x A sequence such as PF1x indicates that you must first
press and release the key labeled PF1 and then press and
release another key or a pointing device button.
Return In an example, a key name enclosed in a box indicates that
you press that key.
…
A horizontal ellipsis in examples indicates one of the
following possibilities:
• Additional optional arguments in a statement have
been omitted.
• The preceding item or items can be repeated one or
more times.
• Additional parameters, values, or other information
can be entered.
.
.
.
A vertical ellipsis indicates the omission of items from
a code example or command format; the items are
omitted\par because they are not important to the topic
being discussed.
( ) In command format descriptions, parentheses indicate that
you must enclose choices in parentheses if you specify
more than one.
[ ] In command format descriptions, brackets indicate optional
choices. You can choose one or more items or no items. Do
not type the brackets on the command line. However, you
must include the brackets in the syntax for OpenVMS
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