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Running Mac OS X Tiger
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Running Mac OS X Tiger

by Jason Deraleau, James Duncan Davidson
December 2005
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
400 pages
11h 33m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Conventions Used in This Book

The following is a list of the typographical conventions used in this book:

Italic

Used to indicate new terms, URLs, filenames, file extensions, directories, commands and options, and program names. For example, a path in the filesystem will appear as /Developer/Applications.

Constant width

Used to show code examples, the contents of a file, or the output from commands.

Constant width italic

Used to show text that should be replaced with user-supplied values.

Constant width bold

Used to show text that is input by the user.

Conventions Used in This Book

A carriage return (Conventions Used in This Book) at the end of a line of code is used to denote an unnatural line break; that is, you should not enter these as two lines of code but as one continuous line. Multiple lines are used in these cases due to printing constraints.

$, %, #

The dollar ($) and percent (%) signs are used in some examples to show the prompt of the bash or tcsh shell; the hash (#) mark is the prompt for the root user.

Menus/navigation

Menus and their options are referred to in the text as File Open, Edit Copy, and so on. Arrows are also used to signify a navigation path when using window options; for example, System Preferences Accounts Login Items means that you would launch System Preferences, click the icon for the Accounts preference ...

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