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RELEASE
The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . .
man-pages-2.74.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
This release contains a copy of the POSIX 1003.1-2003 man pages.
The directories man0p, man1p, man3p contain descriptions of the
headers, the utilities, and the functions documented in that standard.
For the copyright notice, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT.
In order to use this, put in {/usr/share/misc/}man.conf{ig} or so
your favourite order of looking at these pages, for example,
MANSECT 1p:1:8:0p:3p:2:3:4:5:6:7:9:tcl:n:l:p:o
or set the MANSECT environment variable.
OTHER PAGES
The remaining 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 0p = POSIX headers
Section 1p = POSIX utilities
Section 3p = POSIX functions
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 protocols (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd, nfs)
Section 6 = games (intro only)
Section 7 = 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,
please do so and mail them to mtk.manpages@gmail.com.
Copyright information:
For the POSIX pages permission to distribute was given by IEEE
and the Open Group, see POSIX-COPYRIGHT.
For the remaining pages, please note that 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.

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Title: Section 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 man pages for Linux
Version: 2.74
Entered-date: 2007-12-20
Description: Linux and POSIX manual pages
Keywords: man pages
Author: several
Maintained-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Primary-site: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages
2700k man-pages-2.74.tar.gz
Alternate-site: ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/manpages
Copying-policy: several; for the POSIX pages, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT;
the other pages are all freely distributable as long as
nroff source is provided
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