HP Fortran Programmer's Reference (September 2007)

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References to man pages appear in the form mnpgname(1), where “mnpgname” is the name of
the man page and is followed by its section number enclosed in parentheses. To view this man
page, type:
% man 1 mnpgname
NOTE A Note highlights important supplemental information.
Command syntax
Consider this example:
COMMAND input_file [...] {a | b} [ output_file ]
COMMAND must be typed as it appears.
input_file indicates a file name that must be supplied by the user.
The horizontal ellipsis in brackets indicates that additional, optional input file names may
be supplied.
Curly brackets ({}),
Pipe (|)
In command syntax diagrams, text
surrounded by curly brackets indicates a
choice. The choices available are shown inside
the curly brackets and separated by the pipe
sign (|).
The following command example indicates
that you can enter either a or b:
command {a | b}
Horizontal ellipses
(...)
In command examples, horizontal ellipses
show repetition of the preceding items.
Vertical ellipses Vertical ellipses show that lines of code have
been left out of an example.
Keycap Keycap indicates the keyboard keys you must
press to execute the command example.
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