Posted by Peter Palfrader aka Weasel on 1999-11-16
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 05:22:27AM +0100, Morris Know wrote:
> Why are they divided into these catagories and what do those differnet
> catagories mean?
>from man(1):
The table below shows the section numbers of the manual
followed by the types of pages they contain.
1 Executable programs or shell commands
2 System calls (functions provided by the kernel)
3 Library calls (functions within system libraries)
4 Special files (usually found in /dev)
5 File formats and conventions eg /etc/passwd
6 Games
7 Macro packages and conventions eg man(7), groff(7).
8 System administration commands (usually only for root)
9 Kernel routines [Non standard]
n new [obsolete]
l local [obsolete]
p public [obsolete]
o old [obsolete]
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