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.Dd May 1, 2021
.Dt INTRO 7
.Os
.Sh NAME
.Nm intro
.Nd miscellaneous information pages
.Sh DESCRIPTION
This section contains miscellaneous documentation, including:
.Bl -tag -width "kernel_sanitizers(7)" -offset indent
.It Xr ascii 7
map of ASCII character set
.It Xr c 7
the C programming language
.It Xr entropy 7
random unpredictable secrets needed for security
.It Xr environ 7
user environment
.It Xr glob 7
shell-style pattern matching
.\" .It Sy eqnchar
.\" special character definitions for eqn
.It Xr groups 7
standard
.Nx
group names
.It Xr hier 7
file system hierarchy in
.Nx
.It Xr hostname 7
host name resolution description
.It Xr kernel_sanitizers 7
bug detection features in the
.Nx
kernel
.It Xr mailaddr 7
mail addressing description
.\" .It Sy man
.\" macros to typeset manual pages
.It Xr mdoc 7
macros for typesetting
.Nm \-mdoc
style manual pages
.It Xr mdoc.samples 7
tutorial for writing BSD manuals with
.Nm \-mdoc
.\" .It Sy \&me
.\" macros for formatting papers
.\" .It Sy \&ms
.\" macros for formatting manuscripts
.It Xr module 7
kernel modules
.It Xr nls 7
overview of national language support
.It Xr npf 7
.Nx
Packet Filter
.It Xr operator 7
C operator precedence and order of evaluation
.It Xr orders 7
orders of magnitude
.It Xr pkgsrc 7
the
.Nx
packages collection
.It Xr release 7
layout of
.Nx
releases and snapshots
.It Xr rfc6056 7
udp port randomization algorithms
.It Xr script 7
how interpreter scripts are executed
.It Xr security 7
security features available in
.Nx
.It Xr setuid 7
checklist for security and setuid programs
.It Xr signal 7
available signals under
.Nx
.It Xr src 7
layout of the
.Nx
source tree
.It Xr sticky 7
sticky bit
.Pq Dv S_ISVTX
handling
.It Xr symlink 7
symbolic link handling
.It Xr sysctl 7
system information variables in
.Nx
.It Xr tests 7
.Nx
test suite
.\" .It Sy term
.\" conventional names for terminals
.It Xr users 7
standard
.Nx
user account names
.El
.Sh HISTORY
The
.Nm intro
manual page appeared in
.Bx 4.2 .