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diff --git a/man-pages-6.01.Announce b/man-pages-6.01.Announce new file mode 100644 index 000000000..1411b05ae --- /dev/null +++ b/man-pages-6.01.Announce @@ -0,0 +1,61 @@ +RELEASE +The Linux man page maintainer proudly announces. . . + + man-pages-6.01.tar.gz - man pages for Linux + +Differences from the previous manual pages release are listed in +the file "Changes". + +For further information, visit http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ + +THE PAGES +These pages are most of the section 2, 3, 4, 5, 7 man pages +for Linux. A few pages are provided in sections 1 and 8 for commands +that are not documented in other packages, and there are a few pages +in sections 5 and 8 for the timezone utilities. + +[The timezone pages 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.] + +Here is a breakdown of what this distribution contains: + + Section 1 = user commands (intro, plus a few other pages) + Section 2 = system calls + Subsection 2type = types provided by the kernel + Section 3 = library calls + Subsection 3const = library constants + Subsection 3head = library header files + Subsection 3type = library types + Section 4 = devices (e.g., hd, sd) + Section 5 = file formats and configuration files (e.g., wtmp, /etc/passwd) + Section 6 = games (intro only) + Section 7 = overviews, conventions, macro packages, etc. + Section 8 = system administration (intro, plus a few other pages) + + This package contains no, or very few, 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, + or suggest improvements to existing pages, please visit + http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ . + + +Copyright information: + + 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. |