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The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . . |
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man-pages-5.14.tar.gz - man pages for Linux |
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Differences from the previous manual pages release are listed in |
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the file "Changes". |
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For further information, visit http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ |
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POSIX PAGES |
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This package used to contains a copy of the POSIX 1003.1-2003 |
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man pages. The POSIX pages are now distributed in the separate |
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man-pages-posix package. |
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THE PAGES |
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These pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages |
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for Linux. A few pages are provided in sections 1 and 8 for commands |
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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 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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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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Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains: |
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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 3 = libc calls |
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Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd) |
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Section 5 = file formats and configuration files (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd) |
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Section 6 = games (intro only) |
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Section 7 = overviews, conventions, macro packages, etc. |
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Section 8 = system administration (intro, plus a few other pages) |
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This package contains no, or very few, section 1, 6, and 8 man pages |
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because these should be distributed with the binaries they are written |
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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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several hundred man pages. If you want to write some man pages, |
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or suggest improvements to existing pages, please visit |
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http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ . |
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Copyright information: |
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These man pages are distributed under a variety of copyright licenses. |
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Although these licenses permit free distribution of the nroff sources |
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contained in this package, commercial distribution may impose other |
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requirements (e.g., acknowledgement of copyright or inclusion of the |
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raw nroff sources with the commercial distribution). |
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If you distribute these man pages commercially, it is your |
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responsibility to figure out your obligations. (For many man pages, |
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these obligations require you to distribute nroff sources with any |
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pre-formatted man pages that you provide.) Each file that contains |
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nroff source for a man page also contains the author(s) name, email |
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address, and copyright notice.
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