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The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . .
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man-pages-3.25.tar.gz - man pages for Linux
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Differences from the previous manual pages release are listed in
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For further information, visit http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-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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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 protocols (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd, nfs)
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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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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 improvments 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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