man-pages-4.17.Announce

   1 RELEASE
   2 The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . .
   3
   4     man-pages-4.17.tar.gz - man pages for Linux
   5
   6 Differences from the previous manual pages release are listed in
   7 the file "Changes".
   8
   9 For further information, visit http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/
  10
  11 POSIX PAGES
  12 This package used to contains a copy of the POSIX 1003.1-2003
  13 man pages.  The POSIX pages are now distributed in the separate
  14 man-pages-posix package.
  15
  16 THE PAGES
  17 These pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages
  18 for Linux.  A few pages are provided in sections 1 and 8 for commands
  19 that are not documented in other packages, and there are a few pages
  20 in sections 5 and 8 for the timezone utilities.
  21
  22 [The timezone pages were taken from
  23 ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2001a.tar.gz.]
  24 [The section 3 man pages for the db routines have been taken from
  25 ftp://ftp.terra.net/pub/sleepycat/db.1.86.tar.gz.]
  26 [The rpc man pages were taken from the 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM.]
  27
  28 Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains:
  29
  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)
  34     Section 5 = file formats and configuration files (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd)
  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)
  38
  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.
  43
  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,
  46     or suggest improvements to existing pages, please visit
  47     http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ .
  48
  49
  50 Copyright information:
  51
  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.