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- This package contains the Linux man pages for all chapters
- except 1, 6 and 8. Some more information is given in the
- `Announce' file.
-
- Install by copying to your favourite location.
- "make install" will just copy them to /usr/share/man/man[1-8].
- "make" will move the pages from this package that are older than
- the already installed ones to a subdirectory `not_installed',
- then remove old versions (compressed or not),
- compress the pages, and copy them to /usr/share/man/man[1-8].
-
-
- Note that you may have to remove preformatted pages.
-
- Note that sometimes these pages are duplicates of pages
- also distributed in other packages. This has been reported
- about dlclose.3, dlerror.3, dlopen.3, dlsym.3 (found in ld.so),
- about resolver.3, resolv.conf.5 (found in bind-utils),
- and about passwd.5, and mailaddr.7. Be careful not to
- overwrite more up-to-date versions.
- Reports on further duplicates are welcome.
- Formerly present and now removed duplicates:
- *_module.2, get_kernel_syms.2 (found in modutils-2.1.*),
- exports.5 (found in nfs-server-2.2*),
- fstab.5, nfs.5 (found in util-linux-2.11*),
- lilo.8, lilo.conf.5 (found in lilo-21.6*).
-
- Note that the pages that come with GNU fileutils are really
- help texts (indeed, are generated automatically from help texts),
- and worse than worthless. Without them people would have good
- detailed man pages, such as those found here in man1.
- As it is, many distributions install these "man pages",
- to the detriment of their users.
-
- Copyrights: These man pages come under various copyrights.
- All are freely distributable when the nroff source is included.
-
- Send corrections and additions to aeb@cwi.nl
- (man.7 has some info on the macros to use).
-