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This package contains the Linux man pages for all chapters
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This package contains Linux man pages for all sections
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except 1, 6 and 8. Some more information is given in the
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except 1, 6 and 8. Some more information is given in the
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`Announce' file.
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`Announce' file.
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overwrite more up-to-date versions.
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overwrite more up-to-date versions.
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Reports on further duplicates are welcome.
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Reports on further duplicates are welcome.
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Formerly present and now removed duplicates:
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Formerly present and now removed duplicates:
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*_module.2, get_kernel_syms.2 (found in modutils-2.1.*),
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exports.5 (found in nfs-server-2.2*),
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exports.5 (found in nfs-server-2.2*),
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fstab.5, nfs.5 (found in util-linux-2.12*),
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fstab.5, nfs.5 (found in util-linux-2.12*),
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lilo.8, lilo.conf.5 (found in lilo-21.6*).
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lilo.8, lilo.conf.5 (found in lilo-21.6*).
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Note that the pages that come with GNU fileutils are really
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help texts (indeed, are generated automatically from help texts),
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and worse than worthless. Without them people would have good
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detailed man pages, such as those found here in man1.
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As it is, many distributions install these "man pages",
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to the detriment of their users.
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Copyrights: These man pages come under various copyrights.
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Copyrights: These man pages come under various copyrights.
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For the POSIX pages, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT.
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For the POSIX pages, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT.
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All other pages are freely distributable when the nroff source is included.
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All other pages are freely distributable when the nroff source is included.
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OTHER PAGES
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OTHER PAGES
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The remaining pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages
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The remaining pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages
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for Linux, and in addition section 1 man pages for the fileutils-4.0
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for Linux. A few pages are provided in sections 1 and 8 for commands
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utilities, and section 5 and 8 man pages for the timezone utilities.
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that are not documented in other packages, and there are a few pages
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in sections 5 and 8 for the timezone utilities.
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[The latter were taken from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2001a.tar.gz.]
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[The timezone pages were taken from
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ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode2001a.tar.gz.]
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[The section 3 man pages for the db routines have been taken from
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[The section 3 man pages for the db routines have been taken from
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ftp://ftp.terra.net/pub/sleepycat/db.1.86.tar.gz.]
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ftp://ftp.terra.net/pub/sleepycat/db.1.86.tar.gz.]
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[The rpc man pages were taken from the 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM.]
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[The rpc man pages were taken from the 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM.]
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Section 1p = POSIX utilities
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Section 1p = POSIX utilities
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Section 3p = POSIX functions
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Section 3p = POSIX functions
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Section 1 = user commands (intro, and pages not maintained by FSF)
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Section 1 = user commands (intro, plus a few other pages)
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Section 2 = system calls
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Section 2 = system calls
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Section 3 = libc calls
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Section 3 = libc calls
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Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd)
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Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd)
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Section 5 = file formats and protocols (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd, nfs)
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Section 5 = file formats and protocols (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd, nfs)
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Section 6 = games (intro only)
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Section 6 = games (intro only)
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Section 7 = conventions, macro packages, etc.
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Section 7 = conventions, macro packages, etc.
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Section 8 = system administration (intro only)
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Section 8 = system administration (intro, plus a few other pages)
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Usually, there are no section 1, 6 and 8 man pages because these
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This package contains no, or very few, section 1, 6, and 8 man pages
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should be distributed with the binaries they are written for.
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because these should be distributed with the binaries they are written
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Sometimes Section 9 is used for man pages describing parts of the kernel.
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for. Sometimes Section 9 is used for man pages describing parts of
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the kernel.
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Note that only Section 2 is rather complete, but Section 3 contains
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Note that only Section 2 is rather complete, but Section 3 contains
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several hundred man pages. If you want to write some man pages,
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several hundred man pages. If you want to write some man pages,
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