About this manual, Conventions – National Instruments PXI NI PXI-1052 User Manual

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NI PXI-1052 User Manual

About This Manual

The

NI PXI-1052 User Manual

contains information about installing,

configuring, using, and maintaining the NI PXI-1052 chassis.

Conventions

The following conventions are used in this manual:

»

The » symbol leads you through nested menu items and dialog box options
to a final action. The sequence File»Page Setup»Options directs you to
pull down the File menu, select the Page Setup item, and select Options
from the last dialog box.

This icon denotes a note, which alerts you to important information.

This icon denotes a caution, which advises you of precautions to take to
avoid injury, data loss, or a system crash. When this symbol is marked on
the product, refer to the Read Me First: Safety and Radio-Frequency
Interference
document, shipped with the product, for precautions to take.

When symbol is marked on a product it denotes a warning advising you to
take precautions to avoid electrical shock.

When symbol is marked on a product it denotes a component that may be
hot. Touching this component may result in bodily injury.

bold

Bold text denotes items that you must select or click in the software, such
as menu items and dialog box options. Bold text also denotes parameter
names.

italic

Italic text denotes variables, emphasis, a cross reference, or an introduction
to a key concept. This font also denotes text that is a placeholder for a word
or value that you must supply.

monospace

Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should 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, subroutines, device names, functions, operations,
variables, filenames, and extensions.

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