| This package contains the Linux man pages for all chapters |
| except 1, 6 and 8. Some more information is given in the |
| `Announce' file. |
| |
| Install by copying to your favourite location. |
| "make install" will just copy them to /usr/share/man/man[1-8]. |
| "make" will move the pages from this package that are older than |
| the already installed ones to a subdirectory `not_installed', |
| then remove old versions (compressed or not), |
| compress the pages, and copy them to /usr/share/man/man[1-8]. |
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| Note that you may have to remove preformatted pages. |
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| Note that sometimes these pages are duplicates of pages |
| also distributed in other packages. This has been reported |
| about dlclose.3, dlerror.3, dlopen.3, dlsym.3 (found in ld.so), |
| about resolver.3, resolv.conf.5 (found in bind-utils), |
| and about passwd.5, and mailaddr.7. Be careful not to |
| overwrite more up-to-date versions. |
| Reports on further duplicates are welcome. |
| Formerly present and now removed duplicates: |
| *_module.2, get_kernel_syms.2 (found in modutils-2.1.*), |
| exports.5 (found in nfs-server-2.2*), |
| fstab.5, nfs.5 (found in util-linux-2.12*), |
| lilo.8, lilo.conf.5 (found in lilo-21.6*). |
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| Note that the pages that come with GNU fileutils are really |
| help texts (indeed, are generated automatically from help texts), |
| and worse than worthless. Without them people would have good |
| detailed man pages, such as those found here in man1. |
| As it is, many distributions install these "man pages", |
| to the detriment of their users. |
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| Copyrights: These man pages come under various copyrights. |
| For the POSIX pages, see the file POSIX-COPYRIGHT. |
| All other pages are freely distributable when the nroff source is included. |
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| Send corrections and additions to mtk-manpages@gmx.net |
| (man.7 has some info on the macros to use). |