Preface

This document describes new features and summarizes known problems with the Graphical Program Analysis Tools (GPA) Version 3.0.

Audience

The release notes are for the person who installs GPA and for programmers using GPA after installation.

GPA Documentation

GPA documentation includes the following:

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Conventions

Convention Table

Convention Meaning

%

Represents the C shell system prompt.

$

Represents the system prompt for the Bourne and Korn shells.

#

Represents the superuser prompt.

.xdefaults

Monospace type indicates the name of a file, program symbol, environment variable, or standard UNIX utility.

file

Italic monospace type indicates variable values, placeholders, function argument names, and names of example programs.

Actions: Create Group...

Indicates an item on a menu. In this example, you would choose the Create Group... item from the Actions menu.

[ | ]

{ | }

In syntax definitions, brackets indicate items that are optional and braces indicate items that are required. Vertical bars separating items inside brackets or braces indicate that you choose one item from among those listed.

...

In syntax definitions, a horizontal ellipsis indicates that the preceding item can be repeated one or more times.

cat(1)

A cross-reference to a reference page includes the appropriate section number in parentheses. For example, cat(1) indicates that you can find information on the cat command in Section 1 of the reference pages.

Meta+x

This symbol indicates that you hold down the first named key while pressing the key or mouse button that follows the plus sign.

Ctrl+\ f

This symbol indicates that you press the Ctrl key and backslash (\) keys simultaneously, release those keys, then press and release the character key (the letter f, in this example).