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man-pages-1.6 now available
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Mon Jun 12 13:44:26 1995
Date: Mon, 12 Jun 1995 17:48:59 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-activists@niksula.hut.fi, linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
X-Mn-Key: announce
From: Rickard Faith <faith@cs.unc.edu>
Subject: man-pages-1.6 now available
Keywords: Linux-specific man-pages, man-pages-1.6, new release of man pages
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
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Approved: linux-announce@news.ornl.gov (Lars Wirzenius)
Followup-to: comp.os.linux.misc
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 (aeb@cwi.nl),
who has graciously agreed to take over maintenance (thanks Andries!).
***** IN THE FUTURE, please send changes and updates to aeb@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.Knaff@imag.fr)
Alan Cox (iialan@iifeak.swan.ac.uk)
Andries E. Brouwer (aeb@cwi.nl)
Arnt Gulbrandsen (agulbra@nvg.unit.no)
Bjorn Ekwall (bj0rn@blox.se)
Christopher Oliver (oliver@fritz.co.traverse.com)
Dan Miner (dminer@nyx.cs.du.edu)
Daniel Quinlan (quinlan@yggdrasil.com)
Darren Senn (sinster@scintilla.santa-clara.ca.us)
David Metcalfe (david@prism.demon.co.uk)
Drew Eckhardt (drew@cs.colorado.edu)
Giorgio Ciucci (giorgio@crcc.it)
Graeme W. Wilford (G.Wilford@ee.surrey.ac.uk)
Ian Jackson (iwj10@cus.cam.ac.uk)
Jens Schweikhardt (Jens.Schweikhardt@rus.uni-stuttgart.de)
Jim Van Zandt (jrv@vanzandt.mv.com)
Jochen Hein (Hein@Student.TU-Clausthal.de)
Luigi P. Bai (lpb@neosoft.com)
Mark D. Roth (roth@uiuc.edu)
Michael Elizabeth Chastain (mec@shell.portal.com)
Michael Haardt (u31b3hs@pool.informatik.rwth-aachen.de)
Michael Shields (shields@tembel.org)
Mike Battersby (mike@starbug.apana.org.au)
Mitchum DSouza (m.dsouza@mrc-apu.cam.ac.uk)
Nicolai Langfeldt (janl@ifi.uio.no)
Niel Charley (N.Charley-CSSE93@computer-science.birmingham.ac.uk)
Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
Robert K. Nichols (Robert.K.Nichols@att.com)
Steven Greenland (stevegr@sugar.neosoft.com)
Thomas Koenig (ig25@rz.uni-karlsruhe.de)
Ulrich Drepper (drepper@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 (aeb@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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