General Conventions

Be aware of the following conventions used in this book.

• Some code examples have a backslash (\) at the end of a line to specify line continuation, such as the following code example:

# pmadm -a -p tcp -s lpd -i root -m `nlsadmin -o \
/var/spool/lp/fifos/listenBSD -A \
'\x000202038194180e0000000000000000'` -v `nlsadmin -V`

If the line is an example of what to type, ignore the backslashes (don't type them) and press Return at the end of the line that does not end with a backslash. In the example above, you would ignore the two backslashes when typing the pmadm command and press Return after the third line.

• When following steps or using examples, be sure to type double-quotes ("), left single-quotes (`), and right single-quotes (') exactly as shown.

• The key referred to as Return is labeled Enter on some keyboards.

• It is assumed that the root path includes the /sbin, /usr/sbin, /usr/bin, and /etc directories, so the steps in this book show the commands in these directories without absolute path names. Steps that use commands in other, less common, directories show the absolute path in the example.

• The examples in this book are for a basic SunOS 5.x software installation without the Binary Compatibility Package installed and without /usr/ucb in the path.

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  Caution -

  If /usr/ucb is included in a search path, it should always be at the end of the search path. Commands like ps or df are duplicated in /usr/ucb with different formats and options from the SunOS 5.x commands.

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