diff --git a/README b/README index 239f41532..fa98fd928 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -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. @@ -20,18 +20,10 @@ and about passwd.5, and mailaddr.7. Be careful not to 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. diff --git a/man-pages-2.68.Announce b/man-pages-2.68.Announce index aed2713fb..8fa8666d8 100644 --- a/man-pages-2.68.Announce +++ b/man-pages-2.68.Announce @@ -19,10 +19,12 @@ 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, 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.] @@ -33,18 +35,19 @@ Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains: 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,