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32.Dd May 6, 2005
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
40information on
41.Xr troff 1
42macro packages.
43.Pp
44.Bl -tag -width mailaddr
45.It Sy ascii
46map of ASCII character set
47.It Sy environ
48user environment
49.\" .It Sy eqnchar
50.\" special character definitions for eqn
51.It Sy hier
52file system hierarchy
53.It Sy hostname
54host name resolution description
55.It Sy mailaddr
56mail addressing description
57.\" .It Sy man
58.\" macros to typeset manual pages
59.It Sy mdoc
60macros for typesetting
61.Nm \-mdoc
62style manual pages
63.It Sy mdoc.samples
64tutorial for writing BSD manuals with
65.Nm \-mdoc
66.\" .It Sy \&me
67.\" macros for formatting papers
68.\" .It Sy \&ms
69.\" macros for formatting manuscripts
70.It Sy operator
71C operator precedence and order of evaluation
72.It Sy release
73layout of
74.Nx
75releases and snapshots
76.It Sy script
77how interpreter scripts are executed
78.It Sy signal
79available signals under
80.Nx
81.It Sy sticky
82sticky bit
83.Pq Dv S_ISVTX
84handling
85.It Sy symlink
86symbolic link handling
87.\" .It Sy term
88.\" conventional names for terminals
89.El
90.Sh HISTORY
91.Nm
92appeared in
93.Bx 4.2 .
94