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diff --git a/man-pages-1.70.Announce b/man-pages-1.70.Announce new file mode 100644 index 000000000..c9f89d23d --- /dev/null +++ b/man-pages-1.70.Announce @@ -0,0 +1,109 @@ +RELEASE +After more than nine years and 64 releases, +the old Linux man page maintainer announces a last release. . . + + man-pages-1.70.tar.gz - man pages for Linux + + +NEW MAINTAINER +Michael Kerrisk has accepted to take over maintenance. (Thanks!) +Send comments and patches to + + mtk-manpages@gmx.net + + + +POSIX +This release contains a copy of the POSIX 1003.1-2003 man pages. +The directories man0p, man1p, man3p contain descriptions of the +headers, the utilities, and the functions documented in that standard. +For the copyright notice, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT. + +In order to use this, put in {/usr/share/misc/}man.conf{ig} or so +your favourite order of looking at these pages, for example, +MANSECT 1p:1:8:0p:3p:2:3:4:5:6:7:9:tcl:n:l:p:o +or set the MANSECT environment variable. + +OTHER PAGES +The remaining pages are most of the 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/tzcode2001a.tar.gz.] +[The section 3 man pages for the db routines have been taken from +ftp://ftp.terra.net/pub/sleepycat/db.1.86.tar.gz.] +[The rpc man pages were taken from the 4.4BSD-Lite CDROM.] + + +Differences from version 1.69: + + The man pages + + ls.1 + + chroot.2 exit_group.2 mmap.2 nanosleep.2 remap_file_pages.2 + undocumented.2 wait.2 + + HUGE_VAL.3 HUGE_VALF.3 HUGE_VALL.3 INFINITY.3 NAN.3 + dl_iterate_phdr.3 drand48_r.3 endnetgrent.3 erand48_r.3 + finite.3 finitef.3 finitel.3 fpclassify.3 gethostent.3 + gethostent_r.3 getnetgrent.3 getnetgrent_r.3 grantpt.3 + ilogb.3 ilogbf.3 ilogbl.3 innetgr.3 isalpha.3 isinf.3 + isinff.3 isinfl.3 jrand48_r.3 lcong48_r.3 ldexp.3 + logb.3 logbf.3 logbl.3 lrand48_r.3 mrand48_r.3 nrand48_r.3 + openpty.3 ptsname.3 remquo.3 remquof.3 remquol.3 resolver.3 + scalb.3 scalbf.3 scalbl.3 scalbln.3 scalblnf.3 scalblnl.3 + scalbn.3 scalbnf.3 scalbnl.3 seed48_r.3 setnetgrent.3 + significand.3 significandf.3 significandl.3 srand48_r.3 + termios.3 undocumented.3 unlockpt.3 + + resolv.conf.5 utmp.5 + + ip.7 + + ld-linux.8 ld-linux.so.8 + + 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 0p = POSIX headers + Section 1p = POSIX utilities + Section 3p = POSIX functions + + Section 1 = user commands (intro, and pages not maintained by FSF) + 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. + Sometimes Section 9 is used for man pages describing parts of the kernel. + + Note that only Section 2 is rather complete, but Section 3 contains + several hundred man pages. If you want to write some man pages, + please do so and mail them to mtk-manpages@gmx.net. + + +Copyright information: + + For the POSIX pages permission to distribute was given by IEEE + and the Open Group, see POSIX-COPYRIGHT. + + For the remaining pages, 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. |