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32.Dd May 15, 2018
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 ASCII character set
43.It Xr c 7
44the C programming language
45.It Xr environ 7
46user environment
47.It Xr glob 7
48shell-style pattern matching
49.\" .It Sy eqnchar
50.\" special character definitions for eqn
51.It Xr groups 7
52standard
53.Nx
54group names
55.It Xr hier 7
56file system hierarchy in
57.Nx
58.It Xr hostname 7
59host name resolution description
60.It Xr mailaddr 7
61mail addressing description
62.\" .It Sy man
63.\" macros to typeset manual pages
64.It Xr mdoc 7
65macros for typesetting
66.Nm \-mdoc
67style manual pages
68.It Xr mdoc.samples 7
69tutorial for writing BSD manuals with
70.Nm \-mdoc
71.\" .It Sy \&me
72.\" macros for formatting papers
73.\" .It Sy \&ms
74.\" macros for formatting manuscripts
75.It Xr module 7
76kernel modules
77.It Xr nls 7
78overview of national language support
79.It Xr operator 7
80C operator precedence and order of evaluation
81.It Xr orders 7
82orders of magnitude
83.It Xr pkgsrc 7
84the
85.Nx
86packages collection
87.It Xr release 7
88layout of
89.Nx
90releases and snapshots
91.It Xr rfc6056 7
92udp port randomization algorithms
93.It Xr script 7
94how interpreter scripts are executed
95.It Xr security 7
96security features available in
97.Nx
98.It Xr setuid 7
99checklist for security and setuid programs
100.It Xr signal 7
101available signals under
102.Nx
103.It Xr sticky 7
104sticky bit
105.Pq Dv S_ISVTX
106handling
107.It Xr symlink 7
108symbolic link handling
109.It Xr sysctl 7
110system information variables in
111.Nx
112.It Xr tests 7
113.Nx
114test suite
115.\" .It Sy term
116.\" conventional names for terminals
117.It Xr users 7
118standard
119.Nx
120user account names
121.El
122.Sh HISTORY
123The
124.Nm intro
125manual page appeared in
126.Bx 4.2 .
127