HP WBEM Services Software Developer's Kit for HP-UX Provider and Client Developer's Guide A.01

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Conventions
Typefont is used to help identify CIM element names. (Italic type is used
for other things as well, including titles and for emphasis.)
Typefont is used to set off user-specified names, commands and
filenames, and when introducing a new term.
The names of functions and methods will generally be indicated with
parentheses, for example, getInstance(). The word “function” will refer
to a C++ function, and the word “method” will refer to a CIM operation.