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+RELEASE
+The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . .
+
+    man-pages-5.00.tar.gz - man pages for Linux
+
+Differences from the previous manual pages release are listed in
+the file "Changes".
+
+For further information, visit http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
+
+POSIX PAGES
+This package used to contains a copy of the POSIX 1003.1-2003
+man pages.  The POSIX pages are now distributed in the separate
+man-pages-posix package.
+
+THE PAGES
+These pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages
+for Linux.  A few pages are provided in sections 1 and 8 for commands
+that are not documented in other packages, and there are a few pages
+in sections 5 and 8 for the timezone utilities.
+
+[The timezone pages 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 1 = user commands (intro, plus a few other pages)
+    Section 2 = system calls
+    Section 3 = libc calls
+    Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd)
+    Section 5 = file formats and configuration files (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd)
+    Section 6 = games (intro only)
+    Section 7 = overviews, conventions, macro packages, etc.
+    Section 8 = system administration (intro, plus a few other pages)
+
+    This package contains no, or very few, 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,
+    or suggest improvements to existing pages, please visit
+    http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ .
+
+
+Copyright information:
+
+    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.