Conventions in This Manual

This document assumes that you have read the Windows NT Workstation and/or Windows NT Server version 3.51 documentation sets and that you are familiar with using menus, dialog boxes, and other features of the Windows operating system family of products. It also assumes that you have installed Windows NT Workstation or Windows NT Server version 3.51 on your system and that you are using a mouse. For keyboard equivalents to menu and mouse actions, see Microsoft Windows NT online Help.

This document uses several conventions to help you identify information.
The following table describes the typographical conventions used in the
Windows NT Update 1 book.

Convention

Used for

bold

MS-DOS–style command and utility names such as copy or ping and switches such as /? or -h. Also used for Registry value names, such as IniFileMapping, and OS/2 application programming interfaces (APIs).

italic

Parameters for which you can supply specific values. For example, the Windows NT root directory appears in a path name as systemroot\SYSTEM32, where systemroot can be /WINNT35 or some other value.

ALL CAPITALS

Directory names, filenames, and acronyms. For example, DLC stands for Data Link Control; /PAGEFILE.SYS is a file in the boot sector.

Monospace

Sample text from batch and .INI files, Registry paths, and screen text in non-Windows–based applications.


Other conventions in this document include the following: