Networking manual pages

The networking manual pages describe commands, files, and other components of UnixWare 7 that are provided for administering and using networks.

This topic describes the UnixWare networking manual page section naming scheme. For information on how to access manual pages from SCOhelp and the command line, see ``UnixWare 7 Manual Pages''.

Manual page section names

UnixWare manual pages have a main section name, an optional prefix, and an optional suffix. The main section names are:

1
Unrestricted commands, which can be run by any user.

1M
Administrative commands, whose options may be fully or partially restricted to the root or owner accounts.

4
System files and file formats.

5
Miscellaneous information.
A variety of suffixes subdivide the sections further, to allow for logical groupings of manual pages by technology and to enable easy scanning:

bnu
Basic Networking Utilities (BNU).

ipx
The IPX/SPX network protocol suite.

ldap
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

nfs
Network File System (NFS).

nis
Network Information Service (NIS).

nuc
NetWare UNIX Client (NUC).

nws
NetWare Services.

snmp
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

tcp
TCP/IP or the Internet protocol suite
Examples include section 1nfs (Unrestricted NFS commands) and 1Mldap (LDAP administrative commands).
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