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The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . .
man-pages-1.29.tar.gz - 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.
[The latter were taken from ftp://elsie.nci.nih.gov/pub/tzcode1998h.tar.gz.
Nowadays the timezone code, data and programs described in these manpages
come with glibc, but the manpages don't. Stupid GNUheads.
GNU seems to strongly dislike man pages, and either ships no man page at all,
as e.g. for diff, or ships very ugly man pages, mechanically generated
from some other format, like a help text. In a few cases otherwise
good man pages have been spoilt by inserting the message that one
should rather read the info file, even in cases where in fact
the info file is less informative and less correct.
In the timezone case the man pages were thrown out, but no info file
was created: "better a user without docs than a user reading a man page".
As long as this situation lasts we also ship some Section 1 man pages here.]
[The section 3 man pages for the db routines have been taken from
ftp://ftp.terra.net/pub/sleepycat/db.1.86.tar.gz. These days glibc2
includes db routines, but I have not checked whether glibc2 complies
with these man pages.]
[The rpc man pages were taken from the 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM. They are
copyrighted by Sun Microsystems, Inc., but can be distributed freely.]
Differences from version 1.28:
The man pages
ls.1
chown.2 getdents.2 getgroups.2 gethostname.2 getpagesize.2
getrlimit.2 pivot_root.2 prctl.2 ptrace.2 select.2 setup.2
sigblock.2 stat.2 sysinfo.2 truncate.2 uname.2
__setfpucw.3 bcmp.3 bcopy.3 bzero.3 confstr.3 daemon.3
dlclose.3 dlerror.3 dlopen.3 dlsym.3 fcloseall.3 fopen.3
fts.3 fts_children.3 fts_close.3 fts_open.3 fts_read.3 fts_set.3
getcwd.3 getdirentries.3 hsearch.3 iconv.3 iconv_close.3
iconv_open.3 lockf.3 random.3 readv.3 strtok.3 strtok_r.3
toupper.3
dsp56k.4
acct.5 environ.5 host.conf.5 proc.5 resolv.conf.5 resolver.5
shells.5
hier.7 suffixes.7 unicode.7
are new or have been updated. Typographical or grammatical errors
have been corrected in several other places.
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 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)
(Usually, 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. If you want to write some man pages,
please do so and mail them to aeb@cwi.nl.
The following people (listed in alphabetical order by first name)
wrote, edited, or otherwise contributed to this project:
Alain Knaff <Alain.Knaff@imag.fr>
Alan Cox <iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk>
Alan Curry <pacman@cqc.com>
Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Andreas Jaeger <aj@arthur.rhein-neckar.de>
Andries E. Brouwer <aeb@cwi.nl>
Arnt Gulbrandsen <agulbra@nvg.unit.no>
Bjorn Ekwall <bj0rn@blox.se>
Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org>
Christopher Oliver <oliver@fritz.co.traverse.com>
Claus Fischer <claus.fischer@microworld.com>
Dan Miner <dminer@nyx.cs.du.edu>
Daniel Quinlan <quinlan@yggdrasil.com>
Darren Senn <sinster@scintilla.santa-clara.ca.us>
David A. Wheeler <wheeler@ida.org>
David Metcalfe <david@prism.demon.co.uk>
Dimitri Papadopoulos <dpo@club-internet.fr>
Drew Eckhardt <drew@cs.colorado.edu>
Eric S. Raymond <esr@thyrsus.com>
Florian La Roche <florian@suse.de>
Giorgio Ciucci <giorgio@crcc.it>
Graeme W. Wilford <G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk>
Heiner Eisen
Helmut Geyer <Helmut.Geyer@iwr.uni-heidelberg.de>
Ian Jackson <iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk>
James Sneeringer <jvs@ocslink.com>
Jamie Lokier <jamie@imbolc.ucc.ie>
Jens Schweikhardt <Jens.Schweikhardt@rus.uni-stuttgart.de>
Jim Van Zandt <jrv@vanzandt.mv.com>
Jochen Hein <Hein@Student.TU-Clausthal.de>
Jochen Karrer <cip307.cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de>
John S. Kallal <kallal@voicenet.com>
Jonathan Naylor <g4klx@g4klx.demon.co.uk, jsn@cs.nott.ac.uk>
Joseph S. Myers <jsm28@hermes.cam.ac.uk>
Luigi P. Bai <lpb@neosoft.com>
Mark D. Roth <roth@uiuc.edu>
Markus Kuhn <mskuhn@cip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Martin Schulze <joey@infodrom.north.de>
Matthew Wilcox <willy@bofh.ai>
Michael Elizabeth Chastain <mec@duracef.shout.net>
Michael Haardt <michael@moria.de>
Michael Shields <shields@tembel.org>
Mike Battersby <mike@starbug.apana.org.au>
Mike Coleman <mkc@acm.org>
Mitchum DSouza <m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk>
Nick Duffek <nsd@bbc.com>
Nicolai Langfeldt <janl@ifi.uio.no>
Nicols Lichtmaier <nick@debian.org>
Niel Charley <N.Charley-CSSE93@computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk>
Pawel Krawczyk
Peter Memishian <meem@gnu.ai.mit.edu>
Ralf Baechle <ralf@waldorf-gmbh.de>
Ralph Schleicher <rs@purple.UL.BaWue.DE>
Reed H. Petty <rhp@draper.net>
Rik Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
Robert K. Nichols <Robert.K.Nichols@att.com>
Stephen Lee <sl14@cornell.edu>
Steven Greenland <stevegr@sugar.neosoft.com>
Thomas K. Dyas <tdyas@eden.rutgers.edu>
Thomas Koenig <ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@vt.uni-paderborn.de>
Tigran A. Aivazian <tigran@sco.com>
Tom Bjorkholm <tomb@tomb.mydata.se>
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@ipd.info.uni-karlsruhe.de>
Urs Thuermann <urs@isnogud.escape.de>
Wolfram Gloger <wmglo@dent.med.uni-muenchen.de>
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