User manual

About This Manual

• Appendix H, Customer Communication, contains forms you can

use to request help from National Instruments or to comment on

our products and manuals.

• The Glossary contains an alphabetical list and description of terms

used in this manual, including abbreviations, acronyms, metric

prefixes, and symbols.

• The Index contains an alphabetical list of key terms and topics in

this manual, including the page where you can find each one.

Conventions Used in This Manual

The following conventions are used in this manual:

italic Italic text denotes emphasis, a cross reference, or an introduction to a

key concept.

bold italic Bold italic text denotes a note, caution, or warning.

monospace Lowercase text in this font denotes text or characters that are to be

literally input 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, variables, filenames, and

extensions, and for statements and comments taken from program code.

bold Bold text in this font denotes the messages and responses that the

monospace computer automatically prints to the screen.

<> Angle brackets enclose the name of a key on the keyboard—for

example, <PageDown>.

- A hyphen between two or more key names enclosed in angle brackets

denotes that you should simultaneously press the named keys—for

example, <Control-Alt-Delete>.

Abbreviations, acronyms, metric prefixes, mnemonics, symbols, and

terms are listed in the Glossary.