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BSD/386
Operating System
Version 1.1
Technical Features Guide
August, 1994
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BSD/386
Version 1.1
Technical Features Guide
Introduction
BSD/386 Version 1.1 is the second production release of BSDI's ground-
breaking UNIX-like operating system for your 386/486/Pentium PC or
compatible and is shipping now. It includes features and capabilities
from the University of California, Berkeley Computer Systems Research
Group's Net2 release in addition to MIT's X Window system and other
software from a wide variety of sources. BSDI's operating system
releases are unique in their offering of supported base systems software
with almost complete source code.
Contents of BSD/386
BSD/386 is an IEEE POSIX-compliant operating system (to be certified in
1994). BSD/386 contains a wide range of software from many different
sources, including University of California, Berkeley Computer Systems
Research Group (CSRG), MIT's Project Athena, the Free Software
Foundation (GNU), Lawrence Berkeley Laboratories, and many contributors.
BSDI's engineers have integrated, improved, and augmented these pieces
to create BSD/386.
BSD/386 includes bootable binaries for the base operating system,
utilities, X Window System (X11R5), and numerous software packages. BSDI
pays almost no license fees for its software and is therefore able to
redistribute source code for just about the entire release (source code
for certain X display drivers, certain multi-port serial cards, and the
Xircom Pocket Ethernet controllers is not included due to manufacturer
limitations). Some kernel modules in V1.1 are supplied in binary-only
form; Version 2.0 will remove this limitation (V2.0 is scheduled for
late November, 1994).
BSD/386 Version 1.1 supports ISA and EISA bus-based computers. Localbus
versions of supported adapters will also work (for example, localbus IDE
controllers or video cards).
Features
The subsections that follow detail some of the more important technical
features of BSD/386.
Multi-tasking
BSD/386 is a multi-tasking operating system. Your PC can run dozens or
even hundreds of programs (called `processes') concurrently. The
operating system takes care to give each process a share of the CPU. You
can compile a module ``in background'' while editing another module
(potentially in a different window or even on another terminal).
BSD/386 licenses specify no maximum `user limit' - you can connect as
many users as you wish (and your hardware can support) to your PC.
Memory Management
BSD/386 distinguishes itself from many PC operating systems in that it
operates in `protected mode'. References outside a program's address
space are trapped so that they do not harm other programs or the kernel.
BSD/386 also supports virtual memory. You can run a program (or several
programs) that require more memory than your PC has in its physical RAM.
BSD/386 will keep parts of the program's `pages' in memory and store the
rest of them on disk. When disk-resident pages are required, they are
`paged-in' after other pages are `paged-out'.
BSD/386 supports up to 256MB of RAM. Virtual memory size can be as large
as the sum of your physical RAM and your swap space.
Co-Residency
BSD/386 supports `co-residency' so several operating systems can share a
hard disk. You can boot and run BSD/386 from one part of the disk while
reserving another part to boot and run DOS or some other operating
system via the `bootany' program or other boot managers.
Filesystems
BSD/386 divides hard disks into non-overlapping `partitions'. Some
partitions can contain other operating systems or filesystems for other
operating systems (see Co-Residency above). Many partitions may be used
by the system at one time, and each partition may contain a different
type of file system. BSD/386 offers native support for the following
file system types:
o UFS: This is the "fast" file system developed at Berkeley. With its
cylinder groups, careful disk layout strategies, and caching, it
achieves very impressive disk speeds. Of course, BSD/386 supports long
filenames (up to 255 characters) and symbolic links, which are
hallmarks of Berkeley's filesystem development.
o NFS: BSD/386 includes an implementation of Sun's Network File System
(NFS) with significant performance enhancements. This enables you to
export your PC's BSDI filesystems (including ISO-9660 CDROM
filesystems) for sharing with other computers on your network that
support NFS. It also enables you to access those computers' NFS
filesystems. The NFS implementation also includes TCP/NFS for use over
lower speed lines or wide-area networks.
o MFS: The MFS appears to programs exactly like UFS, but it is
optimized for temporary files. MFS gains speed by keeping most
portions of its filesystem in RAM. Actually, MFS stores its data in
virtual memory, so its size may be adjusted to suit application
requirements. Programs which make extensive use of temporary files
(e.g., compilers) see dramatic speedups when the MFS filesystem is
used for /tmp. MFS files are not preserved across reboots.
o CDROM. BSD/386 also supports the standard CDROM filesystem (ISO-9660),
as well as the Rock Ridge extensions which enable a CDROM to contain
full POSIX file names.
o MSDOSFS. BSD/386 supports mounting MS-DOS filesystems directly into
your BSD/386 directory hierarchy.
Additionally, BSD/386 supports access to MS-DOS file systems, whether on
floppy or hard disk, via the mtools package.
Disks
BSD/386 supports a wide variety of disks. The installation software
includes programs to lay out and label the disks in addition to programs
to create filesystems on the disks.
Standard PC IDE, ESDI, RLL, and MFM hard-disks are supported. PC's allow
two controllers and two disks on each controller, totaling four disks.
By adding SCSI adapters you can attach many more disks.
BSD/386 also supports the Mitsumi LU002, LU005, and FX001 CDROM drives
(for the ISA bus) and a host of SCSI CDROM drives.
Tapes
BSD/386 supports WangTek 5150PK QIC-02 interface to QIC-150 tapes and
the Everex EV-811, EV-831, and EV-833 drives. Additionally, a host of
SCSI tape drives is supported.
SCSI
BSD/386 supports SCSI via the Adaptec 154xB, 154xC, 154xCF, and 174xA
SCSI adapters, and the BusLogic (BusTek) BT-542B (ISA), BT-742 (EISA),
BT-747 (EISA), BT-445S (VLB), and BT-946 (PCI) SCSI adapters. An
experimental Adaptec 1520 driver is also available. Almost any SCSI
disk will work with the supported adapters on BSD/386. Support for
other controllers is in the works.
The Adaptec and BusLogic boards support just about all SCSI tapes and
SCSI disks. Exabyte 8mm tapes, WangTek SCSI tapes, CDROM drives, and
dozens of SCSI disks have been tested successfully.
Floating Point Support
If your system has hardware floating point (either through the 486DX
chip or outboard floating point processors like the 387 or equivalent),
then BSD/386 will use the hardware for floating point calculations. If
no hardware support is available, BSD/386 includes floating point
emulation software. No special configuration or recompilation is
required when your system changes from software floating point to
hardware floating point (or vice versa).
Networking
BSD/386 includes the popular TCP/IP protocol suite. Standard facilities
like telnet and ftp are supplied. All the popular Berkeley networking
programs are included, as well (e.g., rsh, rlogin, and rcp). The network
time synchronization protocol (NTP) is also supported. BSD/386 systems
fit quickly and comfortably into your existing TCP/IP environment. Many
customers use BSD/386 for their Internet gateways.
BSD/386 supports the OSI protocol stack.
The benefits of TCP/IP networking have been extended to lower speed
lines through the SLIP protocol and the PPP protocol. You can use your
favorite high speed modem to run TCP/IP via SLIP or PPP to another site
and gain all the benefits of Ethernet-like networking, albeit at
dramatically lower speeds. SLIP and PPP are ideal for sites which
prefer low cost connectivity to wide area networks.
BSD/386 supports the SDL Communications RISCom/N1, RISCom/N2, and
RISCom/H2 high-speed synchronous interface cards. These provide a point-
to-point bit-synchronous serial connection with speeds up to 4 Mb/s
using HDLC frame format. BSD/386 supports Cisco HDLC encapsulation (for
connecting to Cisco routers) and synchronous PPP (Point-to-Point
Protocol) over these connections. These can be used to network over
standard 56K DDS leased lines. Contact SDL Communications Inc. at
508-238-4490.
Security
BSD/386 includes the complete Kerberos IV system. A BSD/386 system
locked in a closet and running as a Kerberos server can dramatically
improve security at sites that wish to use Kerberos.
Terminals
BSD/386 supports hundreds of different kinds of terminals through its
termcap database which parameterizes cursor positioning and other
terminal characteristics.
BSD/386 includes support for: standard PC-compatible and 16550A high-
speed serial ports; the AST-4, USENET II, and compatible four port
cards; the SDL RISCom/8 multiple port serial card; the MAXpeed SS-4/2,
SS-4PLUS, SS-8/2, and SS-16/2 multiport cards; the DigiBoard PC/4e,
PC/8e, PC/16e, PC/8i multiport cards; and the Specialix SLXOS 8-32
multiport card.
UUCP
BSD/386 has a completely new implementation of UUCP which sports
efficiency improvements and backward compatibility with configuration
files of previous implementations.
X Window System
BSD/386 includes Release 5 of MIT's X Window System (X11R5). Many
display adaptors are supported (see below); more are being added each
quarter. Sequoia International, Inc. has OSF/Motif 1.2.3 available for
BSD/386. Contact them at 305-480-6118 or info@seq.com.
Development Environment
All BSD/386 systems are built on PC compatibles running BSD/386. The C
software development environment is complete and includes:
o ANSI & Traditional C compiler (gcc; with lint functionality)
o g++ compiler
o make
o The popular gdb debugger
o flex and Berkeley yacc; lex and yacc replacements
o RCS (the revision control system)
o CVS (the concurrent version system which enables several developers to
work simultaneously in a large source tree)
The BSD/386 source license includes source for just about the entire
release. Only a few modules may not have source code (when licenses for
that source code are prohibitively expensive or require nondisclosure).
Currently, only a few display drivers, the Digiboard drives, the MAXpeed
single multi-port tty driver, and the Xircom Pocket Ethernet drivers are
not delivered with source code. Source code not supplied with the
release is often available at nominal cost to individuals. A few kernel
modules are unavailable in source form in V1.1 but will again be
available in the next release.
Shells
BSD/386 includes Berkeley's csh, GNU's bash, a version of sh that
includes job control and functions, and the `public-domain' ksh shells.
Editors
BSD/386 includes vi, jove, ed, epoch, and emacs (along with over 7MB of
emacs libraries).
Text processing
BSD/386 comes with the complete groff suite of troff-style text
processing utilities and macro packages. Also included is the TEX
distribution.
Performance
BSD/386 can rebuild its kernel on a 486 (50MHz clock) in under seven
minutes of wall clock time. Fast 486 processors have the `feel' of 25
MIPS workstations; 486/66's benchmark at 31 MIPS.
DOS execution
BSD/386 includes a DOS execution environment. This environment enables
running of DOS programs (8086/8088 compatibility mode) under BSD/386.
Most commercial DOS software before Windows can run on an 8086/8088.
640KB of base memory and 4 MB of extended memory are supported.
BSD/386 also supports the mtools package for reading and writing DOS
format filesystems (both floppies and hard disks).
Autoconfiguration
BSD/386 Version 1.1 includes autoconfiguring device drivers that reduce
the need to rebuild the kernel to make basic hardware configuration
changes.
Standards
BSD/386 claims POSIX 1003.1 system interface compatibility;
certification is planned. BSD/386 is tracking the P1003.2 utilities
standard; BSD/386 will comply and ultimately achieve certification.
The C compiler compiles ANSI-C programs. All system headers comply with
ANSI-C and POSIX requirements.
BSD/386 supports TCP/IP and OSI protocol suites and interoperates very
well with other networked computers.
Notebooks/Laptops
BSD/386 is up and running on several different notebook computers. One
slightly stripped-down configuration requires only about 70MB of disk
(with some room left for the user). Shared libraries should be
available in the V2.0 system and will reduce disk consumption
dramatically.
Compatible Hardware
BSD/386 supports a wide variety of hardware. BSD/386 supports a
floating point coprocessor (like a 387, or the built-in coprocessor on a
486DX, or other equivalent hardware). If floating point hardware is not
available the operations are automatically emulated in software.
BSD/386 supports almost all SCSI disks, tapes, and CDROM drives via the
Adaptec 154xB, 154xC, 154xCF, and 174xA SCSI adapters, and the BusLogic
(BusTek) BT-542B (ISA), BT-742 (EISA), BT-747 (EISA), BT-445S (VLB), and
BT-946 (PCI) SCSI adapters. An experimental Adaptec 1520 driver is
also available.
PCMCIA will be supported in early 1995; experimental drivers are up and
running now.
BSD/386 supports 256MB of extended memory installed on ISA and EISA bus
machines.
BSD/386 supports most Ethernet controllers: Western Digital
(WD)/Standard Microsystems Corp. (SMC) 8003/8013 EtherCard PLUS/Elite
series, SMC Ultra, 3COM 3C501 (EtherLink), 3C503 (EtherLink II), 3C505
(EtherLink Plus), 3C507 (EtherLink 16), 3C509/3C579 (EtherLink III), the
Novell NE1000 & NE2000, the TNIC 1500, the Allied Telesys RE2000/AT-1700
Series (experimental), HP EtherTwist (experimental), the Xircom
PocketEthernet II and III, and the Intel EtherExpress 16 (experimental).
BSD/386 supports any standard monochrome or color display controller in
text mode. For screens larger than 640x480, the X Window System
requires color SVGA or VGA cards and enough memory for the virtual
screen size desired (usually about 1 MB). If you want a good middle-of-
the-road card, the ATI Graphics Ultra and its higher-performance kin,
the ATI Graphics Ultra Pro are both nice. The X Window System now
supports VGA-size screens, but they are quite small for multiple
windows, of course.
SuperVGA Cards for X11R5 Max Res ChipSet
---------------------------------------------------
Compuadd Hi-Rez card w/1meg 1024x768 ET4000
Diamond SpeedStar 1024x768 ET4000
EIZO MD-10 800x600 ET3000
GENOA 5300/5400 800x600 ET3000
GENOA 6400 800x600 GVGA
Optima Mega/1024 1024x768 ET4000
Orchid ProDesigner 800x600 ET3000
Orchid ProDesigner II/1024 1024x768 ET4000
Paradise VGA Professional 640x480 PVGA1A
Paradise VGA 1024 640x480 WD90C00
Sigma Legend 1024x768 ET4000
STB PowerGraph w/1meg 1024x768 ET4000
Swan SVGA with VCO chip 1024x768 ET4000
TRICOM Mega/1024 1024x768 ET4000
Trident TVGA 1024x768 TVGA8900C
High speed chipsets:
Cards for X11R5 Max Res ChipSet
--------------------------------------------------
ATI Ultra Plus/Pro 1280x1024 MACH32
ATI Ultra/Vantage 1024x768 MACH8
Diamond Stealth 1024x768 86C911
Diamond Stealth 24 1024x768+ 86C801/805
SPEA V7-Mirage ??? 86C801
ELSA WINNER 1000 1280x1024 86C928
ELSA WINNER 1280 (Rev C) 1280x1024 82C480
ELSA WINNER 1280 (Rev C) 1280x1024 82C481
GENOA 1024x768 86C911
Nth Engine/150 1280x1024 82C480
Nth Engine/250 1280x1024 82C481
Orchid F1280 1024x768 86C911
Orchid F1280VA 1024x768 86C801/805
Paradise 8514 1024x768 WD9500
PixelWorks WhirlWIN 1280x1024 82C480
Radius XGA-2 1024x768
SGS Thompson XGA
STB PowerGraph X24 1024x768 86C801/805
Video7 WIN.PRO 1024x768+ 86C801/805
The `+' means that larger screen sizes are available with extra memory
on the card.
The list of supported chips (in various manufacturer's cards) includes:
ATI MACH64; Cirrus GD5402, GD5420, GD5422, GD5424, GD5426, GD5428,
GD5430, GD5434 DGX; i8514 VESA8514, 82C480, 82C481, WD9500; IIT AGX014,
AGX015; Matrox MGA-I, MGA-II (the highest speed cards supported); Oak
OTI067, OTI077, OTI087; S3 86C801, 86C805, 86C805i, 86C864, 86C911,
86C924, 86C928, 86C964; Trident TVGA8900B, TVGA8900C, TVGA8900CL,
TVGA8900D, TVGA9000, TVGA9000i; Tseng ET3000, ET4000, ET4000/W32,
ET4000/W32i, ET4000/W32p; Weitek P9000; and WDC PVGA1, WD90C00, WD90C11,
WD90C30, WD90C31.
Video adaptors specifically for the ISA, EISA, VLB, and PCI buses are
supported (providing their chips are supported, see the list above).
What about Ethernet adapters for laptops? BSD/386 supports the Xircom
PocketEthernet II and III parallel port ethernet controllers which can
be used in general operation and for installation. Does BSD/386 require
special hardware configurations? BSD/386 includes an autoconfiguration
facility that attempts to probe your system to determine which
peripherals are present. Booting from the floppy uses a `generic'
kernel which has a large selection of devices--but not all of them.
The generic kernel supports the configuration in the following table.
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
|Device Port IRQ DRQ iomem- |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
|First com port 0x3F8 * |
|Second com port 0x2F8 * |
|Floppy 0x3F0 * 2 |
|1st hard-disk ctlr 0x1F0 * |
| Devices above have standard PC-compatible parameters |
|2nd hard-disk ctlr 0x170 * |
|Parallel Porto/ |
| Xircom PocketEthernet 0x378,0x3BC 7 |
|ISA QIC Tape 0x300 * 1 |
|Microsoft Busmouse 0x23C 5 |
|Logitech Busmouse 0x23C 5 |
|Adaptec 154x SCSI ctlr 0x330 * 5 |
|Adaptec 174x SCSI ctlr * * * |
|WD/SMC Etherneto * * * 0xD0000 |
|NE Ethernet 0x340 * |
|NE Ethernet (alternate) 0x320,0x360 * |
|3c501 Ethernet 0x320 * |
|3c503 Ethernet= * * * 0xDC000 |
|3c505 Ethernet 0x240,0x320 * |
|3c507 Ethernet 0x310 * * 0xD0000 |
|3c509 Ethernet- 0x250 * |
|3c579 Ethernet * * |
|Intel EtherExpress 16 0x260 * |
|TNIC-1500 Ethernet 0x300,0x320, * 3 |
| 0x340,0x360 |
|Mitsumi LU002 CDROM 0x334,0x340 2/9 3 |
|Mitsumi LU005 CDROM 0x334,0x340 2/9 6 |
|Mitsumi FX001 CDROM 0x334,0x340 2/9 6 |
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------+
An asterisk (`*') denotes an automatically detected field.
- The iomem addresses for WD/SMC, 3c503, and 3c509 Ethernets are
automatically configured by BSD/386--no special hardware configuration
by the user is necessary. The port number for the 3c509 is also set
by the kernel. The 3c509 uses port 0x100 during autoconfiguration--
this can conflict with another device.
o BSD/386 supports WD/SMC Ethernet at 0x280, 0x2A0, 0x2E0, 0x300, 0x320,
0x340, 0x360, 0x380, 0x3A0, and 0x3E0.
= BSD/386 supports the 3C503 at 0x280, 0x2A0, 0x2E0, 0x300, 0x310,
0x330, and 0x350.
o Parallel printer ports and Pocket Ethernet adapters at port 0x3BC are
known as unit 2 (lp2, pe2 or xir2).
The BSD/386 kernel supports the floating point coprocessor or
automatically emulates the hardware if none exists.
If your configuration doesn't conform to these specifications you will
need to reconfigure it to match. It is extremely important that you
avoid conflicts in the IRQ, I/O Port, and I/O memory addresses of
peripherals.
The following devices are supported but are not configured in generic
kernel. When you configure them into your kernel you can customize the
configurations. Details of individual device configuration can be found
in section 4 of the online manual pages.
+---------------------------------------------------+
|Device Port IRQ iomem |
+---------------------------------------------------+
|PS/2 mouse * 12 |
|DigiBoard PC/Xe 0x220 * 0xD0000 |
|Specialix tty - * 0xD8000 |
|RISCom/N1 0x220 12 |
|MPU-401 MIDI 0x300 * |
|SDL RISCom/8 0x220 * |
|MAXpeed - - 0xD4000 |
|AST-4 0x2A0 * |
|HP EtherTwist 0x2C0,0x300 * 0xC8000 |
|Allied Telesis Ether * * |
+---------------------------------------------------+
An asterisk (`*') denotes an automatically detected field.
Installation
BSD/386 installs via several floppy disks in conjunction with one
QIC-150 (DC6250) tape, one Exabyte 8mm tape, a CDROM, or over the
ethernet to a computer that can read a QIC-150 tape, 8mm tape, or CDROM
. The first boot floppy brings up a minimal version of BSD/386 which
includes device drivers for disks, tapes, network, CDROM, and SLIP in
addition to programs for disk setup; the second floppy contains the
installation software. The system (without the sources) can be loaded
off medium-fast tape drives in less than an hour. CDROMs load the system
even more quickly. Additional floppies contain Kerberos IV and
encryption support and are included with all US and Canadian shipments.
Size of the Release
The system requires at least 4 MB of RAM for normal operation (at least
8 MB if the X Window System is used).
Package Set Size
---------------------------------------------------------------
Base OS, Utilities, Networking, Development tools 52MB
Contributed Software (GNU and other) 26MB
Games, MH, Ghostscript, Emacs, TeX, ISODE 49MB
X11R5 Server, Fonts, X11 Clients, X11 Development tools 68MB
The source package sizes are as follows:
Packages Size
--------------------------------------
BSD/386 Kernel sources 7MB
Library and Utilities sources 222MB
X11R5 sources 116MB
A full install of all binaries and sources requires a total of 540MB.
CDROM users have access to all the sources and binaries directly from
the CDROM. Most of the software packages can be compiled directly from
the CDROM.
Including sources for all the various software brings the total to about
540MB (before any intermediate object (.o) files are generated). Sites
with CDROM drives can compile the sources from CDROM and conserve disk
space.
Origins of Software
BSDI engineers have implemented modules, programs, and have integrated
software from a variety of sources in order to create BSD/386.
BSD/386 includes base operating system software and utilities from the
Berkeley CSRG's Net2 release. The X11R5 window system has its origins at
MIT's Project Athena. Many display drivers for the window system are
supplied by Snitily Graphics Consulting Service. The compilers and
several utilities are supplied by the GNU project (gcc version 1.42,
gcc2 and g++ version 2.5.8). Other utilities and modules have a variety
of origins.
Redistribution Policy
Those modules included in BSD/386 which were not engineered by BSDI's
employees and which were not acquired under special license may be
redistributed under their original terms. The copyright notice in each
source file describes its requirements for redistribution.
Bug Fixes
Bug fixes will be available both from BSDI's service desk and via the
network as users post them in various newsgroups and on mailing lists.
Users can post their own bug fixes (with `diffs'), though the diff's
should not be so extensive as to give out BSDI's proprietary code. BSDI
plans to make its bug database available via the network in the near
future.
Documentation
The release includes a printed installation and configuration manual.
All man pages are included on the software media (in both formatted and
unformatted files).
Future Directions
BSDI's current plans include:
o An execution environment for SCO UNIX SVR3.2 applications.
o Certification of POSIX 1003.1 and, in the future, 1003.2 standards
o Tracking CSRG releases (e.g., 4.4BSD-Lite).
o Ports to other popular architectures (e.g., SPARC)
List of Utilities
The list below shows most of the utilities currently available on
BSD/386 Version 1.1. Additional utilities are being added all the time.
/bin:
[ dd ln pwd stty
bash df ls rcp sync
cat echo mkdir rm tar
chmod expr mt rmail tcsh
cp hostname mv rmdir test
csh kill pax sh zsh
date ksh ps sleep
/usr/bin:
Mail egrep line ranlib troff
addftinfo env lkbib rcs true
afmtodit eqn locate rcsclean tset
apropos error lock rcsdiff tsort
ar ex logger rcsfreeze tty
arch expand login rcsmerge ul
areacode false logname rdist uname
as fdformat look reblock uncompress
at fgrep lookbib refer unexpand
atq file lorder register unifdef
atrm find lpq renice uniq
awk finger lpr reset units
banner fmt lprm rev unvis
basename fold m4 rlog uptime
bc fpr machine rlogin users
bdes from mail rpcgen uucp
biff fsplit mailq rpcinfo uudecode
bpatch fstat make rsh uuencode
bsd2dos ftp makewhatis rstat uuname
cal g++ man rundos uupick
calendar g++2 merge ruptime uusnap
cc gcc mesg rwho uuto
cdctl gcc2 mkdep sccs uux
checknr gcore mkfifo script vacation
chflags gdb mklocale sdiff vgafont
chfn genclass mkmodules sed vgrind
chgrp gprof mkstr sendbug vi
chpass grep more shar view
chsh grodvi mset showmount vis
ci groff msgs size vmstat
cksum grog netstat soelim vreset
clear grops newaliases sort w
cmp grotty nfsstat spell wall
co groups nice split wc
col head nm strings what
colcrt hexdump nohup strip whatis
colrm id nroff su whereis
column ident od suidperl which
comm indent page symorder who
compress indxbib pagesize tail whoami
cpp install passwd taintperl whois
crontab ispell paste talk window
ctags join patch tbl write
cu kdestroy perl tcopy xargs
cut kdump pfbtops tee xroff
cvs kinit pic telnet xstr
cvsinit klist ppp tfmtodit yacc
dc ksrvtgt pr tftp yes
diff ktrace printenv time yyfix
dirname last printf tip zcat
dos2bsd lastcomm psbb tn3270
doscmd ld psroff touch
du leave pstat tput
ed lex quota tr
/sbin:
XNSrouted dumpfs mount_iso9660 pppconfig scsicmd
badsect fastboot mount_mfs quotacheck shutdown
chkconfig fasthalt mount_msdos rdump slattach
clri fsck mountd reboot startslip
diskdefect halt newfs restore swapon
disklabel ifconfig nfsd route tunefs
disksetup init nfsiod routed umount
dmesg mknod ping rrestore
dump mount pppattach savecore
/usr/sbin:
accton htable make_fp ntpq timed
amd identd make_ip ntptrace timedc
amq inetd make_key_perm pac traceroute
arp installsw make_keypair portmap trpt
chown ioport make_odd praliases trsp
chroot iostat make_p pwd_mkdb update
compile_et kdb_destroy make_p_table quotaoff uucico
config kdb_edit make_s_table quotaon uuparams
configsl kdb_init makemap repquota vipw
cron kdb_util mrinfo rmt xferstats
dev_mkdb kerberos mrouted rstatd xntpd
diskpart kgmon msconfig rwhod xntpdc
dosfirstpage kstash mtree sa xntpres
edquota kvm_mkdb named sendmail zic
ext_srvtab lpc named.reload sliplogin
ftpcount lpd named.restart syslogd
ftpshut lptest nslookup tcpdump
gettable mailstats ntpdate tcpslice
/usr/libexec:
at_allowed doscmd.kernel locate.bigram ntalkd uuage
bugfiler fingerd locate.code registerd uucico
cc1 ftpd locate.updatedb rexecd uucpd
comsat gcc2 lpr rlogind uusched
cpp getNAME mail.local rshd uuxqt
diff3 getty makekey telnetd vfontedpr
dos.kernel kpasswdd named-xfer tftpd
/usr/X11/bin:
Mosaic import pgmtofs ppmtorgb3 xev
SuperProbe lispmtopgm pgmtolispm ppmtosixel xeyes
X listres pgmtopbm ppmtotga xfd
X386-SGCS lndir pgmtoppm ppmtouil xfig
XF86_8514 macptopbm pi1toppm ppmtoxpm xfishtank
XF86_Mach32 makedepend pi3topbm ppmtoyuv xfontsel
XF86_Mach8 maze pic2tpic psidtopgm xgas
XF86_Mono mgrtopbm picttoppm puzzle xgc
XF86_S3 mkdirhier pjtoppm qrttoppm xgopher
XF86_SVGA mkfontdir plbpex rasttopnm xhost
XF86_VGA16 mogrify pnmarith rawtopgm ximtoppm
Xaccel montage pnmcat rawtoppm xinfo
animate mtvtoppm pnmconvol resize xinit
anytopnm mwm pnmcrop rgb3toppm xkeycaps
appres oclock pnmcut segment xkill
atktopbm pbmlife pnmdepth sessreg xload
atobm pbmmake pnmenlarge seyon xloadimage
auto_box pbmmask pnmfile showfont xlogo
bdftopcf pbmmerge pnmflip showrgb xlsatoms
beach_ball pbmreduce pnmgamma sldtoppm xlsclients
bggen pbmtext pnmindex spctoppm xlsfonts
bitmap pbmto10x pnminvert spider xmag
bmtoa pbmtoascii pnmmargin sputoppm xman
brushtopbm pbmtoatk pnmmerge startx xmbind
cjpeg pbmtobbnbg pnmnoraw tetris xmh
ckconfig pbmtocmuwm pnmpaste tgatoppm xmille
cmuwmtopbm pbmtoepson pnmrotate tifftopnm xmix
combine pbmtog3 pnmscale transfig xmkmf
configX386 pbmtogem pnmshear twm xmodmap
convert pbmtogo pnmsmooth uil xmosaic
display pbmtoicon pnmtile ups xon
djpeg pbmtolj pnmtops vdcomp xpaint
editres pbmtomacp pnmtorast viewres xphoon
fig2dev pbmtomgr pnmtotiff vtwm xpmtoppm
fig2ps2tex pbmtopi3 pnmtoxwd x11perf xpr
fitstopgm pbmtoplot ppmdither x11perfcomp xprop
fs pbmtoptx ppmforge xarchie xrdb
fsinfo pbmtox10bm ppmhist xauth xrefresh
fslsfonts pbmtoxbm ppmmake xbiff xroach
fstobdf pbmtoybm ppmmerge xbmtopbm xset
fstopgm pbmtozinc ppmpat xboing xsetbg
fvwm pbmupc ppmquant xcalc xsetroot
g3topbm pcxtoppm ppmquantall xclipboard xstdcmap
gemtopbm pgmbentley ppmrelief xclock xterm
giftoppm pgmcrater ppmtoacad xcmap xv
gouldtoppm pgmedge ppmtogif xcmsdb xview
gwm pgmenhance ppmtoicr xcmstest xwd
gxditview pgmhist ppmtoilbm xconsole xwdtopnm
hipstopgm pgmmerge ppmtopcx xcutsel xwininfo
ico pgmnorm ppmtopgm xditview xwud
icontopbm pgmoil ppmtopi1 xdm ybmtopbm
ilbmtoppm pgmramp ppmtopict xdpr yuvtoppm
imake pgmtexture ppmtopj xdpyinfo
imgtoppm pgmtofits ppmtopuzz xedit
/usr/contrib/mh/bin:
ali forw msgchk refile sortm
anno inc msh repl vmh
burst mark next rmf whatnow
comp mhmail packf rmm whom
dist mhn pick scan
folder mhparam prev send
folders mhpath prompter show
/usr/contrib/bin:
MakeTeXPK faxanswer lesskey pcnfsd tangle
a2p faxcover listalias perl tclsh
afm2tfm faxd lprps pico tcsh
answer faxd.recv macvert pktype te
arepdaem faxinfo maddinst play_aiff teachjove
autoreply faxmail mailrc.awk play_au texi2index
bash faxquit makeinfo play_wav texi2roff
basica faxrm makekit playmidi textps
bibtex faxstat mattrib pltotf tftopl
calc filter mcd pooltype top
cbars find2perl mcopy printmail unshar
cdif findsrc md5 psc unzip
cdsp from mdel psgraph vftovp
checkalias funzip mdir psgsimp virmf
checksendmail gftodvi messages psrev vptovf
cmmf gftopk mf rb wdiff
cshar gftype mformat readmsg weave
daemon ghostview mft record wish
dialtest gmake minfo rz zcmp
dig gpatch mixer s2p zdiff
dvicopy gs mkmanifest sb zdown
dvijep gunzip mlabel sc zforce
dvips gzcat mmd scqref zgrep
dvitype gzexe mplay screen zip
elm gzip mrd sdif zipinfo
elvis h2ph mread sendfax zmore
elvrec info mrec shs znew
emacs inimf mren sox zsh
epoch irc mtype squeeze zup
etags ircd mwrite suidperl
fastmail jove nenscript sx
fax2ps ksh newalias sz
faxalter less newmail taintperl
