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