Before you start using this guide, it is important to understand the documentation conventions used in it.
The following kinds of formatting in the text identify special information.
Formatting convention  | 
Type of Information  | 
Example  | 
Special Bold  | 
Items you must select, such as menu options, command buttons, or items in a list.  | 
Go to the System tab.  | 
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Titles of chapters, sections, and subsections.  | 
Read the Basic Administration chapter.  | 
Italics  | 
Used to emphasize the importance of a point, to introduce a term or to designate a command line placeholder, which is to be replaced with a real name or value.  | 
The system supports the so called wildcard character search.  | 
  | 
The names of commands, files, directories, and domain names.  | 
The license file is located in the  | 
Preformatted  | 
On-screen computer output in your command-line sessions; source code in XML, C++, or other programming languages.  | 
 total 14470  | 
Preformatted Bold  | 
What you type, contrasted with on-screen computer output.  | 
# cd /root/rpms/php  | 
CAPITALS  | 
Names of keys on the keyboard.  | 
SHIFT, CTRL, ALT  | 
KEY+KEY  | 
Key combinations for which the user must press and hold down one key and then press another.  | 
CTRL+P, ALT+F4  |