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diff --git a/man3/intro.3 b/man3/intro.3 new file mode 100644 index 000000000..df9a511f5 --- /dev/null +++ b/man3/intro.3 @@ -0,0 +1,57 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michael@moria.de), Fri Apr 2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993 +.\" +.\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or +.\" modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as +.\" published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of +.\" the License, or (at your option) any later version. +.\" +.\" The GNU General Public License's references to "object code" +.\" and "executables" are to be interpreted as the output of any +.\" document formatting or typesetting system, including +.\" intermediate and printed output. +.\" +.\" This manual is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +.\" but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +.\" MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the +.\" GNU General Public License for more details. +.\" +.\" You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public +.\" License along with this manual; if not, write to the Free +.\" Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111, +.\" USA. +.\" +.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:37:50 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu) +.\" Modified Wed Apr 27 13:33:53 MET DST 1994 by Michael Haardt. +.TH INTRO 3 1995-12-13 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual" +.SH NAME +intro \- Introduction to library functions +.SH DESCRIPTION +This chapter describes all library functions excluding the library +functions described in chapter 2, which implement system calls. There +are various function groups which can be identified by a letter which +is appended to the chapter number: +.IP (3C) +These functions, the functions from chapter 2 and from chapter 3S are +contained in the C standard library libc, which will be used by +.BR cc (1) +by default. +.IP (3S) +These functions are parts of the +.BR stdio (3) +library. They are contained in the standard C library libc. +.IP (3M) +These functions are contained in the arithmetic library libm. They are +used by the +.BR f77 (1) +FORTRAN compiler by default, but not by the +.BR cc (1) +C compiler, which needs the option \fI\-lm\fP. +.IP (3F) +These functions are part of the FORTRAN library libF77. There are no +special compiler flags needed to use these functions. +.IP (3X) +Various special libraries. The manual pages documenting their functions +specify the library names. +.SH AUTHORS +Look at the header of the manual page for the author(s) and copyright +conditions. Note that these can be different from page to page! |