PLIP Install HOWTO: Conventions

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## 7. Conventions

The file contents and line commands and install screen-shots are always in `typewriter` font, like this:

         #!/bin/bash
         #############################################
         #### This is the great file /bin/Windows ####
         #############################################

         while [ "1" ]; do
                 echo "I do my best because I'm the best"
                 echo "Very soon, next Y2Kill (the 01/01/0000)"
                 echo "A new marvelous 64 bit release !"
                 echo "Please wait a little more"
                 sleep 18446744073709551615 # 2^64-1
         done

or this:

         $ killall Windows
         Terminated

The file content lines should never begin with white space. You'll have to remove them, if any. Sorry, I'm fed up with `C-a M-AltGr-\` (remember, I'm a French azerty writer). Tab-emacs reflex is untameable (coders who use Emacs always press the tabular key like a twitch).

Command input lines begin with a dollar `$` (the prompt), you don't have to type the dollar, just type the rest of the line; other lines are the command output, you don't have to type them either.

Because all the configuration commands are important, you'll need to use a system administrator shell, like root, on the source and the target computers.

         $ su
         Password: blabla
         #

The prompt will be shown as "`$`" in the remainder of this documentation "`$`", even if it should be "`#`". This is because "`#`" often means comment, so it is ambiguous. I don't like ambiguity in computer science.

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