About This Manual; Conventions Used In This Manual - NI VXIpc-872/700 User Manual

About This Manual

Conventions Used in This Manual

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VXIpc 870 Series
© National Instruments Corporation
This manual contains instructions for installing and configuring the
National Instruments VXIpc 870 Series embedded computer kit. The
VXIpc 870 Series includes all the models of the VXIpc 870 embedded
computers.
The following conventions are used in this manual:
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.
This icon denotes a warning, which advises you of precautions to take to
avoid being electrically shocked.
Bold text denotes items that you must select or click on in the software,
such as menu items and dialog box options. Bold text also denotes
parameter names.
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.
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, and code excerpts.
Bold text in this font denotes the messages and responses that the computer
automatically prints to the screen. This font also emphasizes lines of code
that are different from the other examples.
The term VXIpc 870 Series refers to a series of C-size, two-slot VXI
embedded controllers. Currently, this series consists of the VXIpc-871,
VXIpc-872 and the VXIpc-873.
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