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Organization And Conventions
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This section is organized alphabetically to make it easy for you to look
up a particular command or option.  The following conventions are used:

   * Arguments to commands and options are in all-capitalized letters
     in the synopsis that begins each explanation.  (Note: in the
     treeware version of the book, meta-arguments are italicized as
     well as capitalized; due to the limitations of standard terminal
     fonts, I have omitted the italicization here.)

   * Optional items appear between square brackets: `[ ]'.  (This works
     out okay because square brackets turn out not used in CVS
     syntaces.)

   * If you must choose one from a set, the choices are separated by
     bars, like this: `x|y|z'.  (And therefore forward slashes (`/')
     should be interpreted literally - they do not divide choices in a
     set.)

   * Plurals or ellipses indicate multiples, usually separated by
     whitespace.  For example, FILES means one or more files, but
     [FILES] means zero or more files.  The entry [&MOD...] means an
     ampersand followed immediately by a module name, then whitespace,
     then maybe another ampersand-module, and so on, zero or more
     times.  (The ellipsis is used because a plural would have left it
     unclear whether the ampersand is needed only the first time or
     once for each module.)

     When a plural is parenthesized, as in FILE(S), it means that
     although technically there can be two or more files, usually there
     is only one.

   * REV is often used to stand for a revision argument.  This is
     usually either a revision number or a tag name.  There are very
     few places in CVS where you can use one but not the other, and
     those places are noted in the text.