Document Conventions

Most dialog boxes, edit boxes, screens, and product displays in this guide are shown in Windows 2000. Some features and options may not be available or may be accessed differently on other Windows systems.

Typefaces

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

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.
Non-linked references to other documents or topics within this document.
Emphasis for impact or the first time a word is used.

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 the text is 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 display 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, 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

NOTE	Applies to D3 database management system (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.

D3	Proper name of the DBMS software product that is referred to as D3 throughout this document.
d3	When the name displays in the command language or file names it might display as d3.

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

In this document we use the term:

Windows to refer to any Windows platform
UNIX to refer to AIX and Linux platforms

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

The remaining terms and common MultiValue abbreviations (such as MD, DICT, AM, VM, and SVM) are defined in the Glossary.

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