VERITAS Storage Foundation 4.1 Oracle Administrator's Guide

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Prerelease 8 September 2005, 8:54am Conventions
Conventions
Typographical and Symbolic
The following tables explain the typographical and symbolic conventions used throughout the
guides:
Typeface Conventions
Typeface Usage Examples
monospace Computer output, files, directories,
software elements such as command
options, function names, and parameters
Read tunables from the
/etc/vx/tunefstab file.
See the ls(1) manual page for more
information.
monospace
(bold)
User input # mount - vxfs /h/filesys
italic New terms, book titles, emphasis,
variables replaced with a name or value
See the User’s Guide for details.
The variable ncsize determines the value of...
Symbolic Conventions
Symbol Usage Examples
% C shell prompt
$ Bourne/Korn shell prompt
# Superuser prompt (all shells)
SQL> Oracle SQL prompt for Oracle8i and later. SQL> alter tablespace ts1 \
begin backup;
\ Continued input on the following line; you
do not type this character
# mkfs - vxfs -o largefiles \
/dev/vx/rdsk/PRODdg/db01
[ ] In a command synopsis, brackets indicates
an optional argument
ls [ -a ]