Document Conventions

Different typefaces and type styles are used throughout this document to indicate specific information.

Depending on your Windows implementation, some features and options may not be available or may be accessed differently than what is described in this document.

The letter Z is used to represent the drive or device (for example, Z:\Program Files\TigerLogic\D3 where Z represents the drive).

Italic

Variables to be replaced by the value. It can be an actual name, word, or number. For example, file.name might be replaced with CUST.FILE.
Reference manual titles and chapter or section titles.
Emphasis for impact or the first time a word is used. For example, …resources and information make up the state of the application.

Courier New and Courier New Bold

Code examples, syntax, commands, menu items, screen text, and other keywords recognized by the system. All such text is displayed in Courier New Bold to allow for quick identification when referenced within general descriptive text. Additionally, Courier New Bold is used in code, syntax and screen text boxes to distinguish between typed text and text that is displayed or returned by the system. For example:

Typed Text

Returned Text

Command Statements

Display in Courier New font with the following conventions

UPPERCASE	Characters printed in uppercase are required and must appear exactly as shown.
lowercase	Characters or words printed in lowercase are parameters to be supplied by the user (that is, line number, data, and so on).
{}	Braces surrounding a parameter indicate an optional parameter.

Terminal Key Names

Display in default font when referring to actual keys, for example:

ESC	Refers to the ESC keyboard control key.
CTRL+X	Refers to a key combination. Press and hold down the CTRL key, and then press the letter X or symbol shown.
<CR>	Refers to <CR> as Enter. On some keyboards, carriage return/line feed or <CR> is referred to as Return or Newline.

D3 Naming Conventions

(Applies to D3 DBMS products only.) Throughout this guide there are references to D3, D3, and d3. This is fully intentional and care was taken that every reference is correct.

Naming Convention	Description
D3	Proper name of the DBMS software product that is referred to as D3 throughout this document.
d3	The name may appear as d3 when the name appears in the command language or file names.

In cases where a software change will be implemented soon, you may notice that this document differs from actual displays in your specific installation.

Terminology

The MultiValue DBMS uses terms that approximate conventional data processing concepts, yet remain specific to MultiValue, such as:

MultiValue Name	Conventional Name
Item	Record
Attribute	Field
Item ID	Primary Key