User`s guide

About this book
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You can obtain SGI documentation, release notes, or man pages in the following ways:
• See the SGI Technical Publications Library at http://docs.sgi.com. Various formats
are available. This library contains the most recent and most comprehensive set of
online books, release notes, man pages, and other information.
• For the latest information about software and documentation for your SGI ProPack
software release, see the release notes that are in a file named README.TXT that is
available in /docs directory on the SGI ProPack 6 for Linux CD.
• You can also view man pages by typing man <title> on a command line.
For example, to display the man page for the apropos command, type the following on
a command line:
man apropos
Important system configuration files and commands are documented on man pages.
References in the documentation to these pages include the name of the command and
the section numberinwhich the command isfound.For example, “apropos(1)” refers to
the apropos command and indicates that it is found in section 1 of Linux man pages.
For additional information about displaying reference pages using the man command,
see man(1).
Conventions
The following conventions are used throughout this document:
Convention Meaning
Command This fixed-space font denotes literal items such as commands, files,
routines,pathnames,signals,messages,andprogramminglanguage
structures.
variable The italic typeface denotes variable entries and words or concepts
being defined. Italic typeface also is used for book titles.
user input This bold, fixed-space font denotes literal items that the user enters
ininteractivesessions.Outputisshowninnonbold,fixed-spacefont.
[ ] Brackets enclose optional portions of a command or directive line.
... Ellipses indicate that a preceding element can be repeated.