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Preface

CONVENTIONS USED IN THIS GUIDE

This manual uses the following documentation conventions:

DOCUMENTATION CONVENTIONS

Description Represents Examples

Arial font:

Italic characters and quotes Referenced books

“MPLAB

IDE User’s Guide”

Emphasized text ...is the

only

compiler...

Initial caps A window the Output window

A dialog the Settings dialog

A menu selection select Enable Programmer

Quotes A field name in a window or

dialog

“Save project before build”

Underlined, italic text with

right angle bracket

A menu path

File>Save

Bold characters A dialog button Click OK

A tab Click the Power tab

Text in angle brackets < > A key on the keyboard Press <Enter>, <F1>

Courier font:

Plain Courier Sample source code #define START

Filenames autoexec.bat

File paths c:\autoexec.bat

Keywords _asm, _endasm, static

Command-line options -Opa+, -Opa-

Bit values 0, 1

Constants 0xFF, ‘A’

Italic Courier A variable argument file.o, where file can be

any valid filename

Square brackets [ ] Optional arguments MPASMWIN [main.asm]

Curly brackets and pipe

character { | }

Choice of mutually exclusive

arguments; an OR selection

errorlevel {0|1}

0xnnn A hexidecimal number where

‘n’ is a hexidecimal digit

0xFFF

Ellipses... Replaces repeated text var_name [,

var_name...]

Represents code supplied by

user

void main (void)

{ ...

}