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From: Rik Faith <fa...@cs.unc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: [Announce] Linux-specific man pages now available
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: 11 Oct 1993 20:55:07 GMT
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Keywords: LDP, Linux Documentation, man pages
Originator: mdw@sunSITE
[Why aren't there section 1 or section 8 man pages? Because those pages are
released with the software which they are associated with. We decided not
to attempt to round up and release sections 1 and 8 for this reason... the
sections 1 and 8 man pages on your system should correspond to the software
which you have installed. --mdw]
The Linux Documentation Project proudly announces. . .
man-pages-1.0.tar.gz - section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 man pages for Linux
Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains:
Section 2 = system calls
Section 3 = libc calls
Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd)
Section 5 = file formats (e.g., /etc/wtmp, /etc/passwd)
Section 7 = macro packages, etc. (e.g., nroff, ascii)
Section 9 = internal kernel routines (for kernel hackers)
Note that only Section 2 is really complete, but Section 3 contains several
hundred man pages. I have included all completed man pages in this
distribution to give people an idea of what is available. If you want to
write some man pages, please join the linux-activists DOC channel.
To install this distribution, do something like:
cd /usr/man; gtar zxvvpf man-pages-1.0.tar.gz
I would like to thank the following people (in alphabetical order by first
name) who wrote, edited, or otherwise contributed to this project (forgive
me if I forgot anyone):
Alan Cox
Dan Miner
Darren Senn
David Metcalfe
Drew Eckhardt
Ian Jackson
Michael Haardt
Thomas Koenig
The LSM follows. Remember, the files are now in /pub/Linux/Incoming at
sunsite and won't be moved at tsx-11 for a little while.
Begin2
Title = Section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 man pages for Linux
Version = 1.0
Desc1 = Man pages for Linux. Mostly section 2 is complete. Section
Desc2 = 3 has over 200 man pages, but it still far from being finished.
Author = Linux Documentation Project
AuthorEmail = DOC channel
Maintainer = Rik Faith
MaintEmail = fa...@cs.unc.edu
Site1 = ftp.cs.unc.edu
Path1 = /pub/faith/linux
File1 = man-pages-1.0.tar.gz
FileSize1 = 150k
Site2 = sunsite.unc.edu
Path2 = /pub/Linux/?
Site3 = tsx-11.mit.edu
Path3 = /pub/linux/docs/man
CopyPolicy1 = GPL, Public Domain, or otherwise freely copyable
Keywords = man pages
Entered = Mon Oct 11 14:15:35 1993
EnteredBy = Rik Faith
CheckedEmail = fa...@cs.unc.edu
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From: Rik Faith <fa...@cs.unc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: man-pages-1.3.tar.gz available
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Date: 6 Jul 1994 21:16:05 GMT
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Keywords: man pages, LDP, documentation
[Note: This is an interim release which contains bug fixes applied by Jens
Schweikhardt. I still have a list of changes that need to be made, but I
wanted to get this corrected version out asap. -- Rik Faith]
The Linux Documentation Project proudly announces. . .
man-pages-1.3.tar.gz - section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 man pages for Linux
Differences from version 1.2:
Lots of bugs fixed by Jens Schweikhardt (The Typo Terminator):
man3/fget3.c renamed to man3/fgetc.3
Fixed some .so problems (getnetbyname and friends)
About a dozen cases of word doubling corrected
About half a dozen semantic typos corrected
Ran all files through ispell and corrected >200 spelling typos
(If you ever write a man page, use ispell, I mean it!)
Explicitly tested all files whether they run through groff
Hard linked identical files (the ones with just .so foo/bar.1) thus
saving 115 disk blocks and 115 inodes.
Differences from version 1.0:
Thanks to Giorgio Ciucci for the following *NEW* man pages:
msgctl.2 msgrcv.2 semget.2 shmdt.2
msgget.2 msgsnd.2 semop.2 ipc.5
msgop.2 semctl.2 shmat.2 ftok.3
and for updates to shmctl.2, shmget.2, and shmop.2.
Michael Haardt pointed out that some general formatting problems needed
fixing:
Multi-word arguments to .SH are now in quotes
Many instances of - (hyphen) were changed to \- (minus)
Several instances of \- (minus) were changed to \(em (dash)
shells.5 updated (thanks to Michael Haardt)
gethostid.2 updated (thanks for Mitchum DSouza)
Minor updates to write.2, man.7, and a few other man pages.
Fully converted BSD man pages for:
all of the stdio functions (includes printf and scanf)
alloca, popen, stdarg, and exec
Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains:
Section 1 = user commands (intro only)
Section 2 = system calls
Section 3 = libc calls
Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd)
Section 5 = file formats (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd)
Section 6 = games (intro only)
Section 7 = macro packages, etc. (e.g., nroff, ascii)
Section 8 = system administration (intro only)
Section 9 = internal kernel routines (for kernel hackers)
(There are no section 1, 6 and 8 man pages because these should be
distributed with the binaries they are written for.)
Note that only Section 2 is really complete, but Section 3 contains several
hundred man pages. I have included all completed man pages in this
distribution to give people an idea of what is available. If you want to
write some man pages, please join the linux-activists DOC channel.
To install this distribution, do something like:
cd /usr/man; zcat man-pages-1.3.tar.gz | tar xvpf -
I would like to thank the following people (in alphabetical order by first
name) who wrote, edited, or otherwise contributed to this project:
Alan Cox
Dan Miner
Darren Senn
David Metcalfe
Drew Eckhardt
Giorgio Ciucci
Ian Jackson
Jens Schweikhardt
Luigi P. Bai
Michael Haardt
Mitchum DSouza
Thomas Koenig
Begin2
Title = Section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 man pages for Linux
Version = 1.3
Desc1 = Man pages for Linux. Mostly section 2 is complete. Section
Desc2 = 3 has over 200 man pages, but it still far from being finished.
Author = Linux Documentation Project
AuthorEmail = DOC channel
Maintainer = Rik Faith
MaintEmail = fa...@cs.unc.edu
Site1 = ftp.cs.unc.edu
Path1 = /pub/faith/linux
File1 = man-pages-1.3.tar.gz
FileSize1 = 170k
Site2 = sunsite.unc.edu
Path2 = /pub/Linux/?
Site3 = tsx-11.mit.edu
Path3 = /pub/linux/docs/LDP
CopyPolicy1 = GPL, Public Domain, or otherwise freely copyable
Keywords = man pages
Entered = Mon Jun 19 16:23:35 1994
EnteredBy = Rik Faith
CheckedEmail = fa...@cs.unc.edu
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From: Rik Faith <fa...@cs.unc.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Subject: util-linux-1.9 now available
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Date: 22 Jul 1994 22:05:36 +0300
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Keywords: util-linux, utilities, mkfs, mount, select, etc.
util-linux-1.9.tar.gz (source distribution)
util-linux-1.9.bin.tar.gz (binary distribution)
WARNING: THIS COLLECTION DOES *NOT* SUPPORT SHADOW PASSWORDS.
WARNING: THIS COLLECTION DOES *NOT* SUPPORT SYSTEM V INITTAB.
WARNING: USE GNU TAR -- OTHER TARS WILL FAIL SILENTLY!
WARNING: DO *NOT* INSTALL WITHOUT THINKING.
WARNING: Read the util-linux-1.9.bin.Notes file *BEFORE* and *AFTER*
installation: there are a few links you must make by hand.
This is a collection of many assorted utilities for Linux. Some are
system utilities that are not easily available anywhere elsewhere
(e.g., mkfs); others are BSD ports of common utilities that are not yet
contained in any FSF package (e.g., col); others are non-System-V
alternatives to common utilities (e.g., simpleinit, agetty, login,
passwd).
This distribution is a superset of my previous distributions:
util-etc*, util-bin*, and util-usrbin*. There are no binaries in /etc.
The arrangement, as nearly as I can determine, conforms to the Linux
Filesystem Standard, with no exceptions.
Many people provided patches and suggestions. I deeply appreciate
this.
HIGHLIGHTS for version 1.9:
1) Miscellaneous bug fixes by Dave Gentzel (gent...@nova.enet.dec.com) and
Sander van Malssen (s...@kozmix.hacktic.nl)
2) tunelp has been added
3) selection now allows the mouse pointer to wrap (this is off by default)
(Thanks to Sander van Malssen (s...@kozmix.hacktic.nl).)
4) Many old versions have been removed, making the source distribution
smaller.
HIGHLIGHTS for version 1.8:
1) bdflush is now installed as update (WARNING!).
2) MAKEDEV was updated. This version uses /proc/devices.
3) Minor corrections (thanks to Dave Gentzel).
4) Nigel Gamble's lpcntl is included.
HIGHLIGHTS for version 1.7:
0) A small, static sln (ln substitute) and a small, static sync(1) are
now included.
1) The mkswap(8) man page was fixed (w...@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de (Kai
Petzke))
2) hostname and pwd are no longer installed -- they are in FSF's
sh-util-1.10
3) uuencode and uudecode are no longer installed -- they are in FSF's
uuencode-1.0
4) ed is no longer installed -- it is in FSF's ed-0.1
5) The C version of sync was replaced by an assembly version (by Nick
Holloway)
6) setterm was updated to work with dosemu
7) Various security holes were fixed (login, passwd, agetty, etc.)
8) A few other random things were updated.
9) Many 4.3BSD-reno (NET-2) utilities were replaced with the 4.4BSD-Lite
versions.
10) update has been removed. /sbin/update is now a link to /sbin/bdflush.
11) syslogd moved form /sbin to /usr/sbin, to conform to the FSSTND.
12) mount will use /proc/filesystems if no -t option is given (from
Adam J. Richter (a...@adam.yggdrasil.com)).
HIGHLIGHTS for version 1.6:
Additions:
1) Kevin Martin's cfdisk: a curses based fdisk!
2) Eric Youngdale's bdflush
3) sln: a statically linked (and very stupid) ln
4) getopt(1)
Deletions:
1) doshell hasn't been needed for years (since before 0.98 when getty
didn't exist). I have deleted it.
2) To avoid horrible confusion, ldd and ldconfig have been removed.
Find them in David Engel's ldso package.
Updates:
1) Softlinks are now relative.
2) The backspace problem with agetty is fixed.
3) "maintenance" is now spelled correctly.
4) The example files have been updated.
5) Per Kang-Jin Lee's (l...@tengu.in-berlin.de) suggestion, there is
now an "install.shadow" target that will *NOT* overwrite chsh,
login, newgrp, and passwd. There is no other shadow password
support.
6) Timezone support totally updated (zic and zdump moved to /usr/sbin)
7) mount man page updated per Remy Card (Remy.C...@masi.ibp.fr)
8) MAKEDEV has been updated
9) sync is now statically linked
10) fdisk 1.5 was patched to support DOS and OS/2 partitions.
Begin2
Title = util-linux: Miscellaneous utilities for Linux
Version = 1.9
Desc1 = agetty arch banner cal cfdisk chroot chsh clear clock col
Desc2 = colcrt colrm column ctrlaltdel ddate dmesg domainname dsplit
Desc3 = fdformat fdisk frag fsck fsck.minix getopt hexdump hostname
Desc4 = ipcrm ipcs kbdrate kill last logger login look mesg
Desc5 = mkfs.minix mkswap more mount namei newgrp passwd pwd rdev
Desc6 = renice reset rev script selection setfdprm setfdprm setserial
Desc7 = setsid setterm shutdown simpleinit strings swapoff swapon
Desc8 = sync syslogd tsort tunelp ul umount update_state wall
Desc9 = whereis write zdump zic zones
Author = Several
Maintainer = Rik Faith
MaintEmail = fa...@cs.unc.edu
Site1 = ftp.cs.unc.edu
Path1 = /pub/faith/linux/utils
File1 = util-linux-1.9.tar.gz util-linux-1.9.bin.tar.gz
FileSize1 = 550k for source distribution and 340k for binary distirbution
Site2 = tsx-11.mit.edu
Path2 = /pub/linux/packages/utils
Site3 = sunsite.unc.edu
Path3 = /pub/Linux/system/Misc
Required1 = Linux 1.1.19, libc 4.5.26, GNU tar
CopyPolicy1 = GPL and Regents of the University of California
Entered = Wed Jul 20 10:43:32 1994
EnteredBy = Rik Faith
CheckedEmail = fa...@cs.unc.edu
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From: Rik Faith <fa...@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: man-pages-1.4 is now avaiable
Message-ID: <ann-18457.779640557@cs.cornell.edu>
Followup-To: comp.os.linux.misc
Keywords: man pages, documentation, LDP
Sender: m...@cs.cornell.edu (Matt Welsh)
Reply-To: Rik Faith <fa...@cs.unc.edu>
Organization: None
Date: Thu, 15 Sep 1994 14:49:32 GMT
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The Linux Documentation Project proudly announces. . .
man-pages-1.4.tar.gz - section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 man pages for Linux
Differences from version 1.3:
I finally went through all my mail (since October 1993) and updated the
man pages with all the corrections and updates that folks sent to me.
If you think you sent me an update, and it didn't get into 1.4, please
send it again. The following files, at least, have been updated:
access.2 adjtimex.2 bdflush.2 brk.2 chroot.2 clone.2 dup.2 execve.2
fchdir.2 fork.2 fsync.2 geteuid.2 gettimeofday.2 idle.2 intro.2
link.2 modify_ldt.2 mprotect.2 open.2 setegid.2 seteuid.2 setgid.2
setregid.2 setreuid.2 setsid.2 setuid.2 sigpause.2 undocumented.2
wait.2
catclose.3 catgets.3 catopen.3 closelog.3 intro.3 isalpha.3
openlog.3 strtod.3 syslog.3
passwd.5 proc.5 termcap.5
ascii.7 iso_8859_1.7
238 of the man pages now contain the following notice:
Permission is granted to make and distribute verbatim copies of this
manual provided the copyright notice and this permission notice are
preserved on all copies.
Permission is granted to copy and distribute modified versions of this
manual under the conditions for verbatim copying, provided that the
entire resulting derived work is distributed under the terms of a
permission notice identical to this one.
Since the Linux kernel and libraries are constantly changing, this
manual page may be incorrect or out-of-date. The author(s) assume no
responsibility for errors or omissions, or for damages resulting from
the use of the information contained herein. The author(s) may not
have taken the same level of care in the production of this manual,
which is licensed free of charge, as they might when working
professionally.
Formatted or processed versions of this manual, if unaccompanied by
the source, must acknowledge the copyright and authors of this work.
The following 41 man pages now contain the following notice:
proc.5 iso_8859_1.7 intro.1 brk.2 intro.2 ioperm.2 termios.2 phys.2
ptrace.2 acct.2 setsid.2 intro.3 ftw.3 ftime.3 isatty.3 intro.4
tty.4 mem.4 ram.4 null.4 console.4 fd.4 hd.4 lp.4 ttys.4 passwd.5
utmp.5 ttytype.5 intro.5 group.5 nologin.5 securetty.5 environ.5
motd.5 issue.5 termcap.5 shells.5 intro.6 intro.7 ascii.7 intro.8
This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or
modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of
the License, or (at your option) any later version.
The GNU General Public License's references to "object code"
and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any
document formatting or typesetting system, including
intermediate and printed output.
This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
GNU General Public License for more details.
You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
License along with this manual; if not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, Inc., 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139,
USA.
The notices on the following 56 man pages have not been changed:
sysinfo.2 adjust_clock.9 ctrl-alt-del.9 in_group_p.9
kernel_mktime.9 proc_sel.9 file_table.9 file_table_init.9
filesystems.9 get_empty_filp.9 grow_files.9 insert_file_free.9
put_file_last.9 remove_file_free.9 getitimer.2 accept.2 alloca.3
bind.2 connect.2 exec.3 fclose.3 ferror.3 fflush.3 fopen.3 fread.3
fseek.3 getpass.3 getpeername.2 getpriority.2 getsockname.2
getsockopt.2 ioctl.2 killpg.2 listen.2 lseek.2 mmap.2 popen.3
printf.3 readlink.2 recv.2 scanf.3 send.2 setbuf.3 setpgid.2
setregid.2 setreuid.2 shutdown.2 sigblock.2 sigpause.2 socket.2
socketpair.2 statfs.2 stdarg.3 stdio.3 strtod.3 truncate.2
214 of the 549 man pages are ".so" links
Differences from version 1.2:
Lots of bugs fixed by Jens Schweikhardt (The Typo Terminator):
man3/fget3.c renamed to man3/fgetc.3
Fixed some .so problems (getnetbyname and friends)
About a dozen cases of word doubling corrected
About half a dozen semantic typos corrected
Ran all files through ispell and corrected >200 spelling typos
(If you ever write a man page, use ispell, I mean it!)
Explicitly tested all files whether they run through groff
Hard linked identical files (the ones with just .so foo/bar.1) thus
saving 115 disk blocks and 115 inodes.
Differences from version 1.0:
Thanks to Giorgio Ciucci for the following *NEW* man pages:
msgctl.2 msgrcv.2 semget.2 shmdt.2
msgget.2 msgsnd.2 semop.2 ipc.5
msgop.2 semctl.2 shmat.2 ftok.3
and for updates to shmctl.2, shmget.2, and shmop.2.
Michael Haardt pointed out that some general formatting problems needed
fixing:
Multi-word arguments to .SH are now in quotes
Many instances of - (hyphen) were changed to \- (minus)
Several instances of \- (minus) were changed to \(em (dash)
shells.5 updated (thanks to Michael Haardt)
gethostid.2 updated (thanks for Mitchum DSouza)
Minor updates to write.2, man.7, and a few other man pages.
Fully converted BSD man pages for:
all of the stdio functions (includes printf and scanf)
alloca, popen, stdarg, and exec
Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains:
Section 1 = user commands (intro only)
Section 2 = system calls
Section 3 = libc calls
Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd)
Section 5 = file formats (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd)
Section 6 = games (intro only)
Section 7 = macro packages, etc. (e.g., nroff, ascii)
Section 8 = system administration (intro only)
Section 9 = internal kernel routines (for kernel hackers)
(There are no section 1, 6 and 8 man pages because these should be
distributed with the binaries they are written for.)
Note that only Section 2 is really complete, but Section 3 contains several
hundred man pages. I have included all completed man pages in this
distribution to give people an idea of what is available. If you want to
write some man pages, please join the linux-activists DOC channel.
To install this distribution, do something like:
cd /usr/man; zcat man-pages-1.4.tar.gz | tar xvpf -
The following people (listed in alphabetical order by first name) who
wrote, edited, or otherwise contributed to this project:
Alan Cox (iia...@iifeak.swan.ac.uk)
Dan Miner (dmi...@nyx.cs.du.edu)
Daniel Quinlan (quin...@yggdrasil.com)
Darren Senn (sins...@scintilla.santa-clara.ca.us)
David Metcalfe (da...@prism.demon.co.uk)
Drew Eckhardt (d...@cs.colorado.edu)
Giorgio Ciucci (gior...@crcc.it)
Graeme W. Wilford (G.Wilf...@ee.surrey.ac.uk)
Ian Jackson (iw...@cus.cam.ac.uk)
Jens Schweikhardt (Jens.Schweikha...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de)
Luigi P. Bai (l...@neosoft.com)
Michael Edward Chastain (m...@shell.portal.com)
Michael Haardt (u31b...@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de)
Mitchum DSouza (m.dso...@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk)
Rik Faith (fa...@cs.unc.edu)
Steven Greenland (stev...@sugar.neosoft.com)
Thomas Koenig (i...@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Begin2
Title = Section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 man pages for Linux
Version = 1.4
Desc1 = Man pages for Linux. Mostly section 2 is complete. Section
Desc2 = 3 has over 200 man pages, but it still far from being finished.
Author = Linux Documentation Project
AuthorEmail = DOC channel
Maintainer = Rik Faith
MaintEmail = fa...@cs.unc.edu
Site1 = ftp.cs.unc.edu
Path1 = /pub/faith/linux
File1 = man-pages-1.4.tar.gz
FileSize1 = 170k
Site2 = sunsite.unc.edu
Path2 = /pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/man-pages
Site3 = tsx-11.mit.edu
Path3 = /pub/linux/docs/linux-doc-project
CopyPolicy1 = Public Domain or otherwise freely distributable
Keywords = man pages
Entered = Sun Sep 11 19:52:06 1994
EnteredBy = Rik Faith
CheckedEmail = fa...@cs.unc.edu
End
[Notes: the man pages are not on sunsite because I can't upload to sunsite.
They aren't available yet on tsx-11 because they haven't been moved out of
the incoming directory. So, for the next few days, pick them up from
ftp.cs.unc.edu]
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Subject: man-pages-1.5 now available
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The Linux Documentation Project proudly announces. . .
man-pages-1.5.tar.gz - section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 man pages for Linux
Differences from version 1.4:
The following files have been updated:
accept.2 cfgetispeed.2 cfgetospeed.2 cfsetispeed.2 cfsetospeed.2
close.2 ftime.2 getpeername.2 getsockopt.2 idle.2 killpg.2 mmap.2
modules.2 mount.2 readdir.2 readlink.2 rename.2 semop.2 shutdown.2
sigaction.2 sigblock.2 signal.2 sigpending.2 sigprocmask.2 sigsuspend.2
socket.2 socketpair.2 stat.2 statfs.2 tcdrain.2 tcflow.2 tcflush.2
tcgetattr.2 tcgetpgrp.2 tcsendbreak.2 tcsetattr.2 tcsetpgrp.2 termios.2
umask.2 vhangup.2 write.2
assert.3 bzero.3 catgets.3 catopen.3 clock.3 crypt.3 drand48.3 exec.3
fread.3 fread.3 getmntent.3 hcreate.3 hdestroy.3 hsearch.3 intro.3
localeconv.3 longjmp.3 printf.3 realpath.3 remove.3 setjmp.3
setlocale.3 sigaddset.3 sigdelset.3 sigemptyset.3 sigfillset.3
sigismember.3 sigsetops.3 strcoll.3 strftime.3 strncpy.3 strptime.3
strptime.3 strstr.3 strxfrm.3 va_arg.3 va_end.3 va_start.3
console.4 console_ioctl.4 fd.4 mem.4 ram.4 st.4 vcs.4 vcsa.4
proc.5 utmp.5
ascii.7 iso_8859_1.7 latin1.7 locale.7 signal.7 suffixes.7
ctrl-alt-del.9 kernel_mktime.9
Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains:
Section 1 = user commands (intro only)
Section 2 = system calls
Section 3 = libc calls
Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd)
Section 5 = file formats (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd)
Section 6 = games (intro only)
Section 7 = macro packages, etc. (e.g., nroff, ascii)
Section 8 = system administration (intro only)
Section 9 = internal kernel routines (for kernel hackers)
(There are no section 1, 6 and 8 man pages because these should be
distributed with the binaries they are written for.)
Note that only Section 2 is really complete, but Section 3 contains
several hundred man pages. I have included all completed man pages in
this distribution to give people an idea of what is available. If you
want to write some man pages, please join the linux-doc mailing list on
the vger.rutgers.edu server.
To install this distribution, do something like:
cd /usr/man; zcat man-pages-1.5.tar.gz | tar xvpf -
The following people (listed in alphabetical order by first name) who
wrote, edited, or otherwise contributed to this project:
Alain Knaff (Alain.Kn...@imag.fr)
Alan Cox (iia...@iifeak.swan.ac.uk)
Andries E. Brouwer (a...@cwi.nl)
Arnt Gulbrandsen (agul...@nvg.unit.no)
Bjorn Ekwall (bj...@blox.se)
Christopher Oliver (oli...@fritz.co.traverse.com)
Dan Miner (dmi...@nyx.cs.du.edu)
Daniel Quinlan (quin...@yggdrasil.com)
Darren Senn (sins...@scintilla.santa-clara.ca.us)
David Metcalfe (da...@prism.demon.co.uk)
Drew Eckhardt (d...@cs.colorado.edu)
Giorgio Ciucci (gior...@crcc.it)
Graeme W. Wilford (G.Wilf...@ee.surrey.ac.uk)
Ian Jackson (iw...@cus.cam.ac.uk)
Jens Schweikhardt (Jens.Schweikha...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de)
Jim Van Zandt (j...@vanzandt.mv.com)
Jochen Hein (H...@Student.TU-Clausthal.de)
Luigi P. Bai (l...@neosoft.com)
Michael Edward Chastain (m...@shell.portal.com)
Michael Haardt (u31b...@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de)
Mike Battersby (m...@starbug.apana.org.au)
Mitchum DSouza (m.dso...@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk)
Nicolai Langfeldt (j...@ifi.uio.no)
Niel Charley (N.Charley-CSS...@computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk)
Rik Faith (fa...@cs.unc.edu)
Robert K. Nichols (Robert.K.Nich...@att.com)
Steven Greenland (stev...@sugar.neosoft.com)
Thomas Koenig (i...@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Ulrich Drepper (drep...@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Copyright information:
Please note that these man pages are distributed under a variety of
copyright licenses. Although these licenses permit free distribution
of the nroff sources contained in this package, commercial distribution
may impose other requirements (e.g., acknowledgement of copyright or
inclusion of the raw nroff sources with the commercial distribution).
If you distribute these man pages commercially, it is your
responsibility to figure out your obligations. Each file that contains
nroff source for a man page also contains the author(s) name, email
address, and copyright notice.
Begin3
Title: Section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 man pages for Linux
Version: 1.5
Entered-date: Sun Feb 26 14:12:35 1995
Description: Over 580 man pages for Linux
Keywords: man pages
Author: several
Maintained-by: fa...@cs.unc.edu (Rik Faith)
Primary-site: ftp.cs.unc.edu /pub/users/faith/linux
236k man-pages-1.5.tar.gz
Alternate-site: tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/docs/LDP
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/man-pages
Copying-policy: several; all freely distributable if nroff source included
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From: Rickard Faith <fa...@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: man-pages-1.6 now available
Date: 1995/06/12
Message-ID: <3rhk4g$t6m@myntti.helsinki.fi>
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approved: linux-annou...@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
sender: wirze...@cc.helsinki.fi
followup-to: comp.os.linux.misc
content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
organization: ?
keywords: Linux-specific man-pages, man-pages-1.6, new release of man pages
mime-version: 1.0
newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
The latest version of the Linux-specific man page set,
man-pages-1.6.tar.gz, is available from:
ftp.win.tue.nl:/pub/linux/man
sunsite.unc.edu:/pub/Linux/Incoming
(to be /pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/man-pages)
tsx-11.mit.edu:/incoming
(to be /pub/linux/docs/LDP)
***** PLEASE NOTE: Due to increased time constraints in my (non-Linux)
life, I feel that I am no longer able to maintain the man pages.
Therefore, I have turned them over to Andries Brouwer (a...@cwi.nl),
who has graciously agreed to take over maintenance (thanks Andries!).
***** IN THE FUTURE, please send changes and updates to a...@cwi.nl (I'll
forward mail as appropriate, but it will be best to send updates
directly to Andries).
Here is the standard announcement, followed by the LSM:
The Linux Documentation Project proudly announces. . .
man-pages-1.6.tar.gz - section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 man pages for Linux
Differences from version 1.5:
The following files have been updated:
adjtimex.2 afs_syscall.2 bdflush.2 break.2 chdir.2 dup.2 fchdir.2
fsync.2 getpgid.2 gettimeofday.2 gtty.2 ipc.2 llseek.2 lock.2 mpx.2
obsolete.2 oldfstat.2 oldlstat.2 oldolduname.2 oldstat.2 olduname.2
prof.2 quotactl.2 rename.2 select.2 setfsgid.2 setfsuid.2 setpgid.2
setup.2 socketcall.2 stat.2 stty.2 sync.2 undocumented.2
unimplemented.2 ustat.2 wait.2 write.2
fread.3 getutent.3 hcreate.3 hdestroy.3 isatty.3 perror.3 rand.3
setbuf.3 sigaddset.3 sigdelset.3 sigemptyset.3 sigfillset.3
sigismember.3 ttyname.3 wcstombs.3
console_ioctl.4
proc.5 utmp.5
Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains:
Section 1 = user commands (intro only)
Section 2 = system calls
Section 3 = libc calls
Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd)
Section 5 = file formats (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd)
Section 6 = games (intro only)
Section 7 = macro packages, etc. (e.g., nroff, ascii)
Section 8 = system administration (intro only)
Section 9 = internal kernel routines (for kernel hackers)
(There are no section 1, 6 and 8 man pages because these should be
distributed with the binaries they are written for.)
Note that only Section 2 is really complete, but Section 3 contains
several hundred man pages. I have included all completed man pages in
this distribution to give people an idea of what is available. If you
want to write some man pages, please join the linux-doc mailing list on
the vger.rutgers.edu server.
To install this distribution, do something like:
cd /usr/man; zcat man-pages-1.6.tar.gz | tar xvpf -
The following people (listed in alphabetical order by first name) who
wrote, edited, or otherwise contributed to this project:
Alain Knaff (Alain.Kn...@imag.fr)
Alan Cox (iia...@iifeak.swan.ac.uk)
Andries E. Brouwer (a...@cwi.nl)
Arnt Gulbrandsen (agul...@nvg.unit.no)
Bjorn Ekwall (bj...@blox.se)
Christopher Oliver (oli...@fritz.co.traverse.com)
Dan Miner (dmi...@nyx.cs.du.edu)
Daniel Quinlan (quin...@yggdrasil.com)
Darren Senn (sins...@scintilla.santa-clara.ca.us)
David Metcalfe (da...@prism.demon.co.uk)
Drew Eckhardt (d...@cs.colorado.edu)
Giorgio Ciucci (gior...@crcc.it)
Graeme W. Wilford (G.Wilf...@ee.surrey.ac.uk)
Ian Jackson (iw...@cus.cam.ac.uk)
Jens Schweikhardt (Jens.Schweikha...@rus.uni-stuttgart.de)
Jim Van Zandt (j...@vanzandt.mv.com)
Jochen Hein (H...@Student.TU-Clausthal.de)
Luigi P. Bai (l...@neosoft.com)
Mark D. Roth (r...@uiuc.edu)
Michael Elizabeth Chastain (m...@shell.portal.com)
Michael Haardt (u31b...@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de)
Michael Shields (shie...@tembel.org)
Mike Battersby (m...@starbug.apana.org.au)
Mitchum DSouza (m.dso...@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk)
Nicolai Langfeldt (j...@ifi.uio.no)
Niel Charley (N.Charley-CSS...@computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk)
Rik Faith (fa...@cs.unc.edu)
Robert K. Nichols (Robert.K.Nich...@att.com)
Steven Greenland (stev...@sugar.neosoft.com)
Thomas Koenig (i...@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Ulrich Drepper (drep...@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Copyright information:
Please note that these man pages are distributed under a variety of
copyright licenses. Although these licenses permit free distribution
of the nroff sources contained in this package, commercial distribution
may impose other requirements (e.g., acknowledgement of copyright or
inclusion of the raw nroff sources with the commercial distribution).
If you distribute these man pages commercially, it is your
responsibility to figure out your obligations. (For many man pages,
these obligations require you to distribute nroff sources with any
pre-formatted man pages that you provide.) Each file that contains
nroff source for a man page also contains the author(s) name, email
address, and copyright notice.
Begin3
Title: Section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 man pages for Linux
Version: 1.6
Entered-date: Mon Jun 12 01:12:27 MET DST 1995
Description: Over 580 man pages for Linux
Keywords: man pages
Author: several
Maintained-by: Andries E. Brouwer (a...@cwi.nl)
Primary-site: ftp.win.tue.nl:/pub/linux/man
247k man-pages-1.6.tar.gz
Alternate-site: tsx-11.mit.edu /pub/linux/docs/LDP
Alternate-site: sunsite.unc.edu /pub/Linux/docs/linux-doc-project/man-pages
Copying-policy: several; all freely distributable if nroff source included
End
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