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This package contains the Linux man pages for all chapters
This package contains Linux man pages for all sections
except 1, 6 and 8. Some more information is given in the
`Announce' file.
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overwrite more up-to-date versions.
Reports on further duplicates are welcome.
Formerly present and now removed duplicates:
*_module.2, get_kernel_syms.2 (found in modutils-2.1.*),
exports.5 (found in nfs-server-2.2*),
fstab.5, nfs.5 (found in util-linux-2.12*),
lilo.8, lilo.conf.5 (found in lilo-21.6*).
Note that the pages that come with GNU fileutils are really
help texts (indeed, are generated automatically from help texts),
and worse than worthless. Without them people would have good
detailed man pages, such as those found here in man1.
As it is, many distributions install these "man pages",
to the detriment of their users.
Copyrights: These man pages come under various copyrights.
For the POSIX pages, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT.
All other pages are freely distributable when the nroff source is included.

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OTHER PAGES
The remaining pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages
for Linux, and in addition section 1 man pages for the fileutils-4.0
utilities, and section 5 and 8 man pages for the timezone utilities.
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 latter were taken from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2001a.tar.gz.]
[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.]
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Section 1p = POSIX utilities
Section 3p = POSIX functions
Section 1 = user commands (intro, and pages not maintained by FSF)
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 only)
Section 8 = system administration (intro, plus a few other pages)
Usually, there are no 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.
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,