About This ManualDAQCard-1200 User Manual x © National Instruments Corporation• The Glossary contains an alphabetical list and description of termsused in this manual, including abbreviations, acronyms, metricprefixes, mnemonics, and symbols.• The Index contains an alphabetical list of key terms and topics in thismanual, including the page where you can find each one.Conventions Used in This ManualThe following conventions are used in this manual:<> Angle brackets enclose the name of a key on the keyboard—for example,. Angle brackets containing numbers separated by an ellipsisrepresent a range of values associated with a bit or signal name—forexample, DBIO<3..0>.This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a note, which alerts youto important information.This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a caution, which advisesyou of precautions to take to avoid injury, data loss, or a system crash.This icon to the left of bold italicized text denotes a warning, which advisesyou of precautions to take to avoid being electrically shocked.bold italic Bold italic text denotes an activity objective, note, caution, or warning.italic Italic text denotes variables, emphasis, a cross reference, or an introductionto a key concept. This font also denotes text from which you supply theappropriate word or value, as in NI-DAQ 6.x.monospace Text in this font denotes text or characters that you should literally enterfrom the keyboard, sections of code, programming examples, and syntaxexamples. This font is also used for the proper names of disk drives, paths,directories, programs, subprograms, subroutines, device names, functions,operations, variables, file names and extensions, and for statements andcomments taken from programs.NI-DAQ NI-DAQ is used in this manual to refer to the NI-DAQ software for PCcompatibles unless otherwise stated.PC PC refers to the IBM PC/XT, PC AT, Personal System/2, and laptopcompatible computers which are equipped with a Type II, 5 V-capable slotand a PCMCIA standard version 2.0 or later bus interface.!
