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+RELEASE
+The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . .
+
+    man-pages-2.72.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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+Begin3
+Title:          Section 2, 3, 4, 5 and 7 man pages for Linux
+Version:        2.72
+Entered-date:   2007-12-14
+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
+                2699k man-pages-2.72.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
+End