man-pages-1.70.Announce

   1 RELEASE
   2 After more than nine years and 64 releases,
   3 the old Linux man page maintainer announces a last release. . .
   4
   5     man-pages-1.70.tar.gz - man pages for Linux
   6
   7
   8 NEW MAINTAINER
   9 Michael Kerrisk has accepted to take over maintenance. (Thanks!)
  10 Send comments and patches to
  11
  12         mtk-manpages@gmx.net
  13
  14
  15
  16 POSIX
  17 This release contains a copy of the POSIX 1003.1-2003 man pages.
  18 The directories man0p, man1p, man3p contain descriptions of the
  19 headers, the utilities, and the functions documented in that standard.
  20 For the copyright notice, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT.
  21
  22 In order to use this, put in {/usr/share/misc/}man.conf{ig} or so
  23 your favourite order of looking at these pages, for example,
  24 MANSECT         1p:1:8:0p:3p:2:3:4:5:6:7:9:tcl:n:l:p:o
  25 or set the MANSECT environment variable.
  26
  27 OTHER PAGES
  28 The remaining pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages
  29 for Linux, and in addition section 1 man pages for the fileutils-4.0
  30 utilities, and section 5 and 8 man pages for the timezone utilities.
  31
  32 [The latter were taken from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2001a.tar.gz.]
  33 [The section 3 man pages for the db routines have been taken from
  34 ftp://ftp.terra.net/pub/sleepycat/db.1.86.tar.gz.]
  35 [The rpc man pages were taken from the 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM.]
  36
  37
  38 Differences from version 1.69:
  39
  40     The man pages
  41
  42         ls.1
  43
  44         chroot.2 exit_group.2 mmap.2 nanosleep.2 remap_file_pages.2
  45         undocumented.2 wait.2
  46
  47         HUGE_VAL.3 HUGE_VALF.3 HUGE_VALL.3 INFINITY.3 NAN.3
  48         dl_iterate_phdr.3 drand48_r.3 endnetgrent.3 erand48_r.3
  49         finite.3 finitef.3 finitel.3 fpclassify.3 gethostent.3
  50         gethostent_r.3 getnetgrent.3 getnetgrent_r.3 grantpt.3
  51         ilogb.3 ilogbf.3 ilogbl.3 innetgr.3 isalpha.3 isinf.3
  52         isinff.3 isinfl.3 jrand48_r.3 lcong48_r.3 ldexp.3
  53         logb.3 logbf.3 logbl.3 lrand48_r.3 mrand48_r.3 nrand48_r.3
  54         openpty.3 ptsname.3 remquo.3 remquof.3 remquol.3 resolver.3
  55         scalb.3 scalbf.3 scalbl.3 scalbln.3 scalblnf.3 scalblnl.3
  56         scalbn.3 scalbnf.3 scalbnl.3 seed48_r.3 setnetgrent.3
  57         significand.3 significandf.3 significandl.3 srand48_r.3
  58         termios.3 undocumented.3 unlockpt.3
  59
  60         resolv.conf.5 utmp.5
  61
  62         ip.7
  63
  64         ld-linux.8 ld-linux.so.8
  65
  66     are new or have been updated. Typographical or grammatical errors
  67     have been corrected in several other places.
  68
  69 Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains:
  70
  71     Section 0p = POSIX headers
  72     Section 1p = POSIX utilities
  73     Section 3p = POSIX functions
  74
  75     Section 1 = user commands (intro, and pages not maintained by FSF)
  76     Section 2 = system calls
  77     Section 3 = libc calls
  78     Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd)
  79     Section 5 = file formats and protocols (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd, nfs)
  80     Section 6 = games (intro only)
  81     Section 7 = conventions, macro packages, etc.
  82     Section 8 = system administration (intro only)
  83
  84     Usually, there are no section 1, 6 and 8 man pages because these
  85     should be distributed with the binaries they are written for.
  86     Sometimes Section 9 is used for man pages describing parts of the kernel.
  87
  88     Note that only Section 2 is rather complete, but Section 3 contains
  89     several hundred man pages.  If you want to write some man pages,
  90     please do so and mail them to mtk-manpages@gmx.net.
  91
  92
  93 Copyright information:
  94
  95     For the POSIX pages permission to distribute was given by IEEE
  96     and the Open Group, see POSIX-COPYRIGHT.
  97
  98     For the remaining pages, please note that these man pages are
  99     distributed under a variety of copyright licenses.  Although these
 100     licenses permit free distribution of the nroff sources contained in
 101     this package, commercial distribution may impose other requirements
 102     (e.g., acknowledgement of copyright or inclusion of the raw nroff
 103     sources with the commercial distribution).
 104     If you distribute these man pages commercially, it is your
 105     responsibility to figure out your obligations.  (For many man pages,
 106     these obligations require you to distribute nroff sources with any
 107     pre-formatted man pages that you provide.)  Each file that contains
 108     nroff source for a man page also contains the author(s) name, email
 109     address, and copyright notice.