The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . . man-pages-1.28.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 1.27: The man pages accept.2 capget.2 execve.2 sendfile.2 socket.2 unlink.2 vfork.2 clock.3 fgetwc.3 fputwc.3 fwide.3 fwprintf.3 getwchar.3 iswalnum.3 iswalpha.3 iswblank.3 iswdigit.3 iswgraph.3 iswlower.3 iswpunct.3 iswspace.3 iswupper.3 iswxdigit.3 printf.3 putwchar.3 snprintf.3 swprintf.3 vfwprintf.3 vswprintf.3 vwprintf.3 wprintf.3 hosts.equiv.5 ip.7 iso_8859-2.7 netdevice.7 packet.7 signal.7 socket.7 unix.7 are new or have been updated. The page charsets.4 was moved to charsets.7. 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 Alan Cox Alan Curry Andi Kleen Andreas Jaeger Andries E. Brouwer Arnt Gulbrandsen Bjorn Ekwall Bruno Haible Christopher Oliver Claus Fischer Dan Miner Daniel Quinlan Darren Senn David A. Wheeler David Metcalfe Dimitri Papadopoulos Drew Eckhardt Eric S. Raymond Florian La Roche Giorgio Ciucci Graeme W. Wilford Heiner Eisen Helmut Geyer Ian Jackson James Sneeringer Jamie Lokier Jens Schweikhardt Jim Van Zandt Jochen Hein Jochen Karrer John S. Kallal Jonathan Naylor Joseph S. Myers Luigi P. Bai Mark D. Roth Markus Kuhn Martin Schulze Matthew Wilcox Michael Elizabeth Chastain Michael Haardt Michael Shields Mike Battersby Mike Coleman Mitchum DSouza Nick Duffek Nicolai Langfeldt Niel Charley Pawel Krawczyk Peter Memishian Ralf Baechle Ralph Schleicher Reed H. Petty Rik Faith Robert K. Nichols Stephen Lee Steven Greenland Thomas K. Dyas Thomas Koenig Thorsten Kukuk Tigran A. Aivazian Tom Bjorkholm Ulrich Drepper Urs Thuermann Wolfram Gloger 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.