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• Select—to push and hold down the left mouse button

• Release—to let up on a mouse button to initiate an action

• Click—to select and release a mouse button without moving the pointer

• Double-click—to click a mouse button twice quickly without moving the pointer

• Drag—to move the pointer by sliding the mouse with one or more buttons selected.

The Cisco VPN Solutions Center software supports a three-button mouse. The buttons are configured as follows:

• Left button—selects objects and activates controls

• Middle button—adjusts a selected group of objects, adding to or deselecting part of the group

• Right button—displays and selects from menus.

This book uses this terminology throughout (even though it is possible for individual users to customize their devices to use the buttons in an alternative manner).

In situations that allow more than one item to be selected from a list simultaneously, the following actions are supported:

• To select a single item in a list, click on the entry. Clicking a second time on a previously selected entry deselects it.

• To select a contiguous block of items, click on the first entry; then, without releasing the mouse button, drag to the last desired entry and release. (A subsequent click anywhere on the screen deselects all previous selections.)

• To extend a currently selected block, hold the Shift key down and click on the entry at the end of the group to be added

• To add a non-contiguous entry to the selection group, hold the Ctrl (Control) key down and click on the entry to be added.

Names of on-screen elements that you click, or select (menu names and commands, and controls such as buttons, drop-down lists, and so on) are printed in bold font.

Bold font is also used for keywords, names of commands and menus, and names of keys on the keyboard.

Text displayed as on-screen examples is printed in courier font.

When set off from the main text, words and characters you should enter by the keyboard are printed in bold font. When the word or character string is in italics (for example, install_dir), you should substitute your own character string for the example presented in the text.

For example, when you see:

  Login as the vpnadm user

you should specify the string vpnadm at the login prompt. However, when you see:

  password: password

you should specify your own password in place of the character string password.

The italic style is used for nonprinting characters, characters you must enter that are unique for your system or network, to emphasize words, to introduce new terms, and for titles of printed publications.

Command descriptions use the following conventions:

boldface font	Commands and keywords are in boldface.
italic font	Arguments for which you supply values are in italics.
[]	Elements in square brackets are optional.
{x | y | z}	Alternative keywords are grouped in braces and separated by vertical bars.
[x | y | z]	Optional alternative keywords are grouped in brackets and separated by vertical bars.
string	A nonquoted set of characters. Do not use quotation marks around the string or the string will include the quotation marks.

Screen examples use the following conventions:

screen font	Terminal sessions and information the system displays are in screen font.
boldface screen font	Information you must enter is in boldface screen font.
italic screen font	Arguments for which you supply values are in italic screen font.
^	The symbol ^ represents the key labeled Control—for example, the key combination ^D in a screen display means hold down the Control key while you press the D key.
[]	Default responses to system prompts are in square brackets.
!, #	An exclamation point (!) or a pound sign (#) at the beginning of a line of code indicates a comment line.

CCO serves a wide variety of users through two interfaces that are updated and enhanced simultaneously: a character-based version and a multimedia version that resides on the World Wide Web (WWW). The character-based CCO supports Zmodem, Kermit, Xmodem, FTP, and Internet e-mail, and it is excellent for quick access to information over lower bandwidths. The WWW version of CCO provides richly formatted documents with photographs, figures, graphics, and video, as well as hyperlinks to related information.

You can access CCO in the following ways: