National Instruments VXI/VME 600 - Manual (Page 8)

About This Manual
VXI/VMEpc 600 Series for Windows 95/NT viii © National Instruments Corporation
• The Index contains an alphabetical list of key terms and topics used in
this manual, including the page where you can find each one.
Conventions Used in This Manual
The following conventions are used in this manual:
♦
The
♦
symbol indicates that the text following it applies only to a specific
product, a specific operating system, or a specific software version.
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a note, which alerts you
to important information.
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a caution, which advises
you of precautions to take to avoid injury, data loss, or a system crash.
This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a warning, which advises
you of precautions to take to avoid being electrically shocked.
bold Bold text denotes the names of menus, menu items, or dialog box buttons
or options.
bold italic Bold italic text denotes a note, caution, or warning.
italic Italic text denotes emphasis, a cross reference, or an introduction to a key
concept. This font also denotes text from which you supply the appropriate
word or value.
monospace Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should literally enter
from the keyboard, sections of code, programming examples, and syntax
examples. This font is also used for the proper names of disk drives, paths,
directories, programs, subprograms, device names, functions, variables,
filenames, and extensions.
monospace bold Bold text in this font denotes the messages and responses that the computer
automatically prints to the screen.
monospace italic Italic text in this font denotes that you must enter the appropriate words or
values in the place of these items.
VXI/VMEpc 600 Series The term VXI/VMEpc 600 Series refers to a series of B-size, two-slot VXI
or VME embedded controllers. Currently, this series consists of the
VXIpc-650 and VMEpc-650. This term is used when information applies
equally to the VXI and VME models.
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