October 1, 1979 HOW TO READ THIS MANUAL
NOTATION ________
Words which normally would not be capitalized, but are in this
manual, have a special meaning in FRESS. They are introduced
either where they are first described or in Section 1.3.
completely Any __________ capitalized words refer to FRESS Commands, or if
preceded by an ampersand, "&", they refer to House Functions.
The appropriate descriptions can be found in Section 5.8 or in
Section 6, respectively.
b The symbol "/" indicates a literal blank.
Specifications ______________
Generally, the notations used throughout this manual are
entirely consistent with TM37, "Notational Conventions," which
should be referenced for detailed examples. The rules are
summarized below.
Specifications (e.g., commands, format codes) are always found
in a box, as are many figures. Various sections may supplement
these rules with more specific guidelines:
Any alphabetic characters in a specification box may be
specified in upper and/or lower case.
Symbolic parameters in specifications are enclosed by syntactic
not to be substituted for brackets ("<" and ">"). They are __________________________
literally _________, but indicate rather a parameter of that general
form.
When there is a limited selection of parameters, each choice
will be listed under the symbolic parameter, or listed on a
single line below the parameter, separated by or-bars (e.g.,
ABC).
Optional parameters are enclosed by brackets ("[" and "]").
underlined Default parameters, if any, will be __________ when they can be
generalized.
Any punctuation characters (e.g., "+", ",", ".", "-") found in
literally a specification are to be taken _________.
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