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32.Dd March 23, 2010
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 environ 7
46user environment
47.\" .It Sy eqnchar
48.\" special character definitions for eqn
49.It Xr hier 7
50file system hierarchy in
51.Nx
52.It Xr hostname 7
53host name resolution description
54.It Xr mailaddr 7
55mail addressing description
56.\" .It Sy man
57.\" macros to typeset manual pages
58.It Xr mdoc 7
59macros for typesetting
60.Nm \-mdoc
61style manual pages
62.It Xr mdoc.samples 7
63tutorial for writing BSD manuals with
64.Nm \-mdoc
65.\" .It Sy \&me
66.\" macros for formatting papers
67.\" .It Sy \&ms
68.\" macros for formatting manuscripts
69.It Xr nls 7
70overview of national language support
71.It Xr operator 7
72C operator precedence and order of evaluation
73.It Xr pkgsrc 7
74the
75.Nx
76packages collection
77.It Xr release 7
78layout of
79.Nx
80releases and snapshots
81.It Xr script 7
82how interpreter scripts are executed
83.It Xr setuid 7
84checklist for security and setuid programs
85.It Xr signal 7
86available signals under
87.Nx
88.It Xr sticky 7
89sticky bit
90.Pq Dv S_ISVTX
91handling
92.It Xr symlink 7
93symbolic link handling
94.It Xr sysctl 7
95system information variables in
96.Nx
97.\" .It Sy term
98.\" conventional names for terminals
99.El
100.Sh HISTORY
101The
102.Xr intro 7
103manual page appeared in
104.Bx 4.2 .
105