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- RELEASE
- The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . .
-
- man-pages-2.39.tar.gz - man pages for Linux
-
- Differences from the previous manual pages release are listed in
- the file "Changes".
-
- POSIX
- This release contains a copy of the POSIX 1003.1-2003 man pages.
- The directories man0p, man1p, man3p contain descriptions of the
- headers, the utilities, and the functions documented in that standard.
- For the copyright notice, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT.
-
- In order to use this, put in {/usr/share/misc/}man.conf{ig} or so
- your favourite order of looking at these pages, for example,
- MANSECT 1p:1:8:0p:3p:2:3:4:5:6:7:9:tcl:n:l:p:o
- or set the MANSECT environment variable.
-
- OTHER PAGES
- The remaining pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages
- for Linux, and in addition section 1 man pages for the fileutils-4.0
- utilities, and section 5 and 8 man pages for the timezone utilities.
-
- [The latter were taken from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2001a.tar.gz.]
- [The section 3 man pages for the db routines have been taken from
- ftp://ftp.terra.net/pub/sleepycat/db.1.86.tar.gz.]
- [The rpc man pages were taken from the 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM.]
-
- Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains:
-
- Section 0p = POSIX headers
- Section 1p = POSIX utilities
- Section 3p = POSIX functions
-
- Section 1 = user commands (intro, and pages not maintained by FSF)
- Section 2 = system calls
- Section 3 = libc calls
- Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd)
- Section 5 = file formats and protocols (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd, nfs)
- Section 6 = games (intro only)
- Section 7 = conventions, macro packages, etc.
- Section 8 = system administration (intro only)
-
- Usually, there are no section 1, 6 and 8 man pages because these
- should be distributed with the binaries they are written for.
- Sometimes Section 9 is used for man pages describing parts of the kernel.
-
- Note that only Section 2 is rather complete, but Section 3 contains
- several hundred man pages. If you want to write some man pages,
- please do so and mail them to mtk-manpages@gmx.net.
-
-
- Copyright information:
-
- For the POSIX pages permission to distribute was given by IEEE
- and the Open Group, see POSIX-COPYRIGHT.
-
- For the remaining pages, please note that these man pages are
- distributed under a variety of copyright licenses. Although these
- licenses permit free distribution of the nroff sources contained in
- this package, commercial distribution may impose other requirements
- (e.g., acknowledgement of copyright or inclusion of the raw nroff
- sources with the commercial distribution).
- If you distribute these man pages commercially, it is your
- responsibility to figure out your obligations. (For many man pages,
- these obligations require you to distribute nroff sources with any
- pre-formatted man pages that you provide.) Each file that contains
- nroff source for a man page also contains the author(s) name, email
- address, and copyright notice.
-