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<H2><A NAME="s7">7. Conventions</A> </H2>
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<P>The file contents and line commands and install screen-shots are
always in <CODE>typewriter</CODE> font, like this:
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<PRE>
#!/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
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<P>or this:
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<PRE>
$ killall Windows
Terminated
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<P>
<P>The file content lines should never begin with white space. You'll
have to remove them, if any. Sorry, I'm fed up with <CODE>C-a
M-AltGr-\</CODE> (remember, I'm a French azerty writer). Tab-emacs
reflex is untameable (coders who use Emacs always press the tabular
key like a twitch).
<P>Command input lines begin with a dollar <CODE>$</CODE> (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.
<P>Because all the configuration commands are important, you'll need
to use a system administrator shell, like root, on the
<B>source</B> and the <B>target</B> computers.
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<PRE>
$ su
Password: blabla
#
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<P>The prompt will be shown as "<CODE>$</CODE>" in the remainder of this
documentation "<CODE>$</CODE>", even if it should be "<CODE>#</CODE>". This
is because "<CODE>#</CODE>" often means comment, so it is ambiguous. I
don't like ambiguity in computer science.
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