The following text formats are used throughout this document.
| Convention | Meaning |
| Bold | Indicates the actual commands, words, or characters that you type in a dialog box or at the command prompt. Hypertext links also appear in bold. |
| Italic | Indicates a placeholder for information or parameters that you must provide. For example, if the procedure asks you to type filename, you must type the actual name of a file. |
Monospace |
Represents examples of screen text or entries that you might type at the command line or in initialization files. |