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## About This Guide

This guide describes InfoSearch, the SGI desktop information searching and document browsing system. InfoSearch provides you with a way to search, browse, and view all the documentation available on the desktop in one interface, including man pages, release notes, and online books.

## Conventions

The following conventions are used throughout this document:

Convention | Meaning
`command` | This fixed-space font denotes literal items such as commands, files, routines, path names, signals, messages, and programming language structures.
function | This bold font indicates a function or method name. Parentheses are also appended to the name.
variable | Italic typeface denotes variable entries and words or concepts being defined.
`user input` | This bold, fixed-space font denotes literal items that the user enters in interactive sessions. Output is shown in nonbold, fixed-space font.
[] | Brackets enclose optional portions of a command or directive line.
... | Ellipses indicate that a preceding element can be repeated.
`manpage`(x) | Man page section identifiers appear in parentheses after man page names.

## Obtaining Publications

To obtain SGI documentation, go to the SGI Technical Publications Library at `http://techpubs.sgi.com`.

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