January 2003
Intermediate to advanced
832 pages
32h 40m
English
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Conventions Used in This Book
The following typographical conventions are used in this book:
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Italic Used to indicate new terms, URLs, filenames, file extensions, directories, commands and options, program names, and to highlight comments in examples. For example, a path in the filesystem will appear as
/Applications/Utilities.-
Constant Width Used to show the contents of files or the output from commands.
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Constant Width Bold Used in examples and tables to show commands or other text that should be typed literally by the user.
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Constant Width Italic Used in examples and tables to show text that should be replaced with user-supplied values.
- Menus/Navigation
Menus and their options are referred to in the text as File → Open, Edit → Copy, etc. Arrows are also used to signify a navigation path when using window options—for example, System Preferences → Login → Login Items means that you would launch System Preferences, click the icon for the Login control panel, and select the Login Items pane within that panel.
- Pathnames
Pathnames are used to show the location of a file or application in the filesystem. Directories (or
foldersfor Mac and Windows users) are separated by a forward slash. For example, if you see something like, " . . . launch the Terminal application (/Applications/Utilities)” in the text, this means the Terminal application can be found in theUtilitiessubfolder of theApplicationsfolder.Relatedly, a tilde character (~) refers to the current user’s Home directory, so ...
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