Typographic Conventions

This document uses the following typographic conventions.

find(1): HP-UX manpage. In this example, “find” is the manpage name and “1” is the manpage section.

Book Title: Title of a book or other document.
Linked Title: Title that is a hyperlink to a book or other document.
http://www.hp.com: A Web site address that is a hyperlink to the site.
Command: Command name or qualified command phrase.
user input: Commands and other text that you type.
computer output: Text displayed by the computer.
Enter: The name of a keyboard key. Note that Return and Enter both refer to the same key. A sequence such as Ctrl+A indicates that you must hold down the key labeled Ctrl while pressing the A key.
term: Defined use of an important word or phrase.
variable: The name of an environment variable, for example PATH or errno.
value: A value that you may replace in a command or function, or information in a display that represents several possible values.

<element>: An element used in a markup language.
attrib=: An attribute used in a markup language.

Advanced Topics

This guide provides Advanced Topic sections that introduce you to more in-depth levels of discussion and procedures. You should read them as they may contain information that could be useful and relevant to a patching environment, but they are not necessary to using the main body of procedures in this guide.

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