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1RELEASE
2The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . .
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a4e17b66 4 man-pages-4.17.tar.gz - man pages for Linux
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6Differences from the previous manual pages release are listed in
7the file "Changes".
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9For further information, visit http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
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11POSIX PAGES
12This package used to contains a copy of the POSIX 1003.1-2003
13man pages. The POSIX pages are now distributed in the separate
14man-pages-posix package.
15
16THE PAGES
17These pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages
18for Linux. A few pages are provided in sections 1 and 8 for commands
19that are not documented in other packages, and there are a few pages
20in sections 5 and 8 for the timezone utilities.
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22[The timezone pages were taken from
23ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2001a.tar.gz.]
24[The section 3 man pages for the db routines have been taken from
25ftp://ftp.terra.net/pub/sleepycat/db.1.86.tar.gz.]
26[The rpc man pages were taken from the 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM.]
27
28Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains:
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30 Section 1 = user commands (intro, plus a few other pages)
31 Section 2 = system calls
32 Section 3 = libc calls
33 Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd)
ae86ac0e 34 Section 5 = file formats and configuration files (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd)
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35 Section 6 = games (intro only)
36 Section 7 = overviews, conventions, macro packages, etc.
37 Section 8 = system administration (intro, plus a few other pages)
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39 This package contains no, or very few, section 1, 6, and 8 man pages
40 because these should be distributed with the binaries they are written
41 for. Sometimes Section 9 is used for man pages describing parts of
42 the kernel.
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44 Note that only Section 2 is rather complete, but Section 3 contains
45 several hundred man pages. If you want to write some man pages,
f5ddfb6a 46 or suggest improvements to existing pages, please visit
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47 http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ .
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50Copyright information:
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52 These man pages are distributed under a variety of copyright licenses.
53 Although these licenses permit free distribution of the nroff sources
54 contained in this package, commercial distribution may impose other
55 requirements (e.g., acknowledgement of copyright or inclusion of the
56 raw nroff sources with the commercial distribution).
57 If you distribute these man pages commercially, it is your
58 responsibility to figure out your obligations. (For many man pages,
59 these obligations require you to distribute nroff sources with any
60 pre-formatted man pages that you provide.) Each file that contains
61 nroff source for a man page also contains the author(s) name, email
62 address, and copyright notice.