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32.Dd July 1, 2012
33.Dt INTRO 7
34.Os
35.Sh NAME
36.Nm intro
37.Nd miscellaneous information pages
38.Sh DESCRIPTION
39This section contains miscellaneous documentation, including:
40.Bl -tag -width "mdoc.samples(7)" -offset indent
41.It Xr ascii 7
42map of
43.Tn ASCII
44character set
45.It Xr c 7
46the C programming language
47.It Xr environ 7
48user environment
49.It Xr glob 7
50shell-style pattern matching
51.\" .It Sy eqnchar
52.\" special character definitions for eqn
53.It Xr hier 7
54file system hierarchy in
55.Nx
56.It Xr hostname 7
57host name resolution description
58.It Xr mailaddr 7
59mail addressing description
60.\" .It Sy man
61.\" macros to typeset manual pages
62.It Xr mdoc 7
63macros for typesetting
64.Nm \-mdoc
65style manual pages
66.It Xr mdoc.samples 7
67tutorial for writing BSD manuals with
68.Nm \-mdoc
69.\" .It Sy \&me
70.\" macros for formatting papers
71.\" .It Sy \&ms
72.\" macros for formatting manuscripts
73.It Xr module 7
74kernel modules
75.It Xr nls 7
76overview of national language support
77.It Xr operator 7
78C operator precedence and order of evaluation
79.It Xr orders 7
80orders of magnitude
81.It Xr pkgsrc 7
82the
83.Nx
84packages collection
85.It Xr release 7
86layout of
87.Nx
88releases and snapshots
89.It Xr rfc6056 7
90udp port randomization algorithms
91.It Xr script 7
92how interpreter scripts are executed
93.It Xr security 7
94security features available in
95.Nx
96.It Xr setuid 7
97checklist for security and setuid programs
98.It Xr signal 7
99available signals under
100.Nx
101.It Xr sticky 7
102sticky bit
103.Pq Dv S_ISVTX
104handling
105.It Xr symlink 7
106symbolic link handling
107.It Xr sysctl 7
108system information variables in
109.Nx
110.It Xr tests 7
111.Nx
112test suite
113.\" .It Sy term
114.\" conventional names for terminals
115.El
116.Sh HISTORY
117The
118.Xr intro 7
119manual page appeared in
120.Bx 4.2 .
121