The STANDARDS section that appears in many manual pages identifies
various standards to which the documented interface conforms.
The following list briefly describes these standards.
-.TP
-.B K&R
-This refers to the C language as specified in
-.I \[lq]The C Programming Language\[rq]
-[Brian W.\& Kernighan and Dennis M.\& Ritchie;
-Prentice Hall;
-1st Ed., 1978].
+.SS Research Unix
.TP
.B V7
Version 7 (also known as Seventh Edition) UNIX,
.UR https:\://www.tuhs.org/\:cgi\-bin/\:utree.pl?file=V7
available online
.UE .
+.SS BSD
.TP
.B 4.2BSD
This is an implementation standard defined by the 4.2 release
.UR https:\://www.tuhs.org/\:cgi\-bin/\:utree.pl?file=4.4BSD
available online
.UE .
+.SS Unix/TS
.TP
.B System V
This is an implementation standard defined by AT&T's milestone 1983
Available online at
.UR http:\://www.sco.com\:/developers\:/devspecs/
.UE .
+.SS Standard C
+.TP
+.B K&R
+This refers to the C language as specified in
+.I \[lq]The C Programming Language\[rq]
+[Brian W.\& Kernighan and Dennis M.\& Ritchie;
+Prentice Hall;
+1st Ed., 1978].
.TP
.B C89
This was the first C language standard, ratified by ANSI
.UR https:\://www.open\-std.org/\:jtc1/\:sc22/\:wg14/\:www/\:docs/\:n3220.pdf
available online
.UE .
-.TP
-.B LFS
-The Large File Summit specification, completed in 1996.
-This specification defined mechanisms that allowed 32-bit systems
-to support the use of large files (i.e., 64-bit file offsets).
-See
-.UR https:\://www.opengroup.org\:/platform\:/lfs.html
-.UE .
+.SS POSIX and SUS
.TP
.B POSIX.1-1988
This was the first POSIX standard,
and 3p (functions);
thus one can write
.IR man\~3p\~open .
+.SS Other standards
+.TP
+.B LFS
+The Large File Summit specification, completed in 1996.
+This specification defined mechanisms that allowed 32-bit systems
+to support the use of large files (i.e., 64-bit file offsets).
+See
+.UR https:\://www.opengroup.org\:/platform\:/lfs.html
+.UE .
.SH SEE ALSO
.BR getconf (1),
.BR confstr (3),