Typographical Conventions, Support, and Licensing

This section describes the typographical conventions used throughout the documentation, explains how to obtain technical support, and provides some information about licensing.

Typographical conventions

Throughout this manual, we use certain typographical conventions to distinguish technical terms. In general, the conventions we use conform to those found in IEEE POSIX publications.

The following table summarizes our conventions:


Reference	Example
Code examples	`if (stream == NULL)`
Command options	`-lR`
Commands	make
Constants	NULL
Data types	unsigned short
Environment variables	PATH
File and pathnames	/dev/null
Function names	exit()
Keyboard chords	CtrlAltDelete
Keyboard input	`Username`
Keyboard keys	Enter
Program output	`login:`
Variable names	`stdin`
Parameters	parm1
User-interface components	Navigator
Window title	Options

We use an arrow in directions for accessing menu items, like this:

You'll find the Other... menu item under Perspective > Show View.

We use notes, cautions, and warnings to highlight important messages:

Note: Notes point out something important or useful.

CAUTION: Cautions tell you about commands or procedures that may have unwanted or undesirable side effects.

DANGER: Warnings tell you about commands or procedures that could be dangerous to your files, your hardware, or even yourself.

Notice: Alerts tell you about commands or procedures that could expose private information or otherwise compromise security.

Note to Windows users

In our documentation, we typically use a forward slash (/) as a delimiter in pathnames, including those pointing to Windows files. We also generally follow POSIX/UNIX filesystem conventions.

Technical support

Technical assistance is available for all supported products.

To obtain technical support for any QNX product, visit the Support area on our website (https://blackberry.qnx.com/en/support). You'll find a range of support options.

Licensing information

The QNX Software Center distributes software and provides links to license information. You can use the QNX Software Center to navigate to the applicable license information for components, packages, and files. To see the license information, ensure that you log in to the QNX website with your myQNX account.

Follow these steps to view license information associated with a component, package, or file in the QNX Software Center:

In the Updates, Available, Installed, or Advanced tabs, right-click a component, package, or file and select Properties.
In the Properties window, if you selected:
- a component or package from the Updates, Available, or Installed tab, click End User License Agreement
- a file from the Advanced tab, click License Notice, Open Source Software License Compliance, or License Supplement

For more information about using the QNX Software Center, see the myQNX License Manager and QNX Software Center User's Guide. To learn more about BlackBerry QNX licensing, visit https://www.qnx.com/legal/licensing/.

For additional information, see these links:

Legal Information for the terms and agreements when you use our website
Privacy Policy for information about the BlackBerry privacy policy
Contact BlackBerry QNX for contact information

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