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Typographical Conventions
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Typographical Conventions
The following conventions and symbols are used in the text to describe the
form of Fortran statements:
Bold Indicates literal command line options, filenames,
keywords, function/subroutine names, pathnames, and
directory names.
Italics Represents user-defined values. Replace the item in italics
with a legal value. Italics are also used for command names,
manual page names, and manual titles.
Courier Indicates command syntax, program listings, computer
output, and error messages.
Courier bold
Indicates user input.
[ ] Enclose optional command arguments.
() Surround arguments or are empty if the function has no
arguments following function/subroutine names.
Surround manual page section in which the command is
described following IRIX commands.
| Sseparates two or more optional items.
... Indicates that the preceding optional items can appear more
than once in succession.
# IRIX shell prompt for the superuser.
% IRIX shell prompt for users other than superuser.