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NAME
refurm - general introduction to the User's Reference Manual
DESCRIPTION
Overview
The Commands. User's Reference Manual (Reliant UNIX 5.44) describes
the commands that can be called by "normal" users on RM400 (or RM200
and RM300) and RM600 systems.
Further information on UNIX commands can be found in the following
manuals:
⊕ The User's Guide presents an overview of the Reliant UNIX operating
system and contains tutorials on how to use text editors, automate
repetitive jobs, and send information to other users.
⊕ The System Administrator's Reference Manual describes the commands,
procedures, and files used for system maintenance.
⊕ The Programmer's Reference Manual describes the commands, system
calls, subroutines, libraries, file formats, and miscellaneous
facilities used by programmers.
⊕ The Networking Reference Manual describes the commands, system
calls, subroutines, libraries, file formats, and miscellaneous
facilities required for users of networked systems.
⊕ The Programmer's Guide: Internationalization - Localization
describes the functions and commands used for the internationaliza-
tion and localization of the internationalized software products in
the system.
Naming conventions and formats
Throughout the manual, extensions appearing in brackets after a com-
mand name are cross-references to the relevant section in this (or
another) manual. A command description followed by (1) is located
either in this manual, or in the
Programmer's Reference Manual
or in the
Networking Reference Manual.
An overview of which user commands are found in which manuals is
presented at the end of this manual page as well as under refprm(1)
and refnet(1).
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A description followed by (1M) is located either in the corresponding
section of the System Administrator's Reference Manual or of the Net-
working Reference Manual.
A description followed by (2) or (3?) is located in the corresponding
section of the Programmer's Reference Manual.
A description followed by (3N) is located in the corresponding section
of the Networking Reference Manual.
A description followed by (4) or (5) is located either in Section 4 or
5 of the Programmer's Reference Manual or of the Networking Reference
Manual.
A description followed by (7) or (8) is located either in the corre-
sponding section of the System Administrator's Reference Manual or of
the Networking Reference Manual.
Note for online users:
With the man command, you can call up a manual page using its exten-
sion. This is useful if a manual page is available under the same name
in several sections and can only be distinguished by means of its
name, e.g. the "iconv" command, for which there are three variants:
iconv(1) [user command], iconv(3C) [C function], and iconv(5) [header
file]. If you call up the manual page using "man iconv", all three
descriptions are displayed on the screen one after the other. If you
are only interested in one of these descriptions, e.g. the one for the
C function, you must call up the manual page as follows: "man 3C
iconv".
The procedure is similar for manual pages for which there are dif-
ferent "versions", for instance AT&T and UCB. Here it is also possible
to call up the description you require, e.g. for the "chown" command,
for which there are two variants AT&T and UCB. If you are only
interested in the UCB description for example, you must call up the
manual page as follows: "man 1-ucb chown".
All reference pages have a common format for both the contents
(chapter structure) and the synopsis for using the command. Further
information on these conventions can be found under introurm(1). Gen-
eral information on the various intro manual pages can be found under
intro(1). manprint(1) describes how to print the manual page displayed
on the screen using the "man" command.
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USER COMMANDS IN OTHER MANUALS
Programmer's Reference Manual
admin(1)
as(1)
asa(1)
cb(1)
cdc(1)
cflow(1)
checkabicompliance(1)
checkabiinterface(1)
checkforsyscalls(1)
comb(1)
cscope(1)
ctrace(1)
cxref(1)
delta(1)
dis(1)
dump(1)
get(1)
help(1)
install(1)
install(1-ucb)
ld(1)
ld(1-ucb)
ldd(1)
lex(1)
lint(1)
lorder(1)
lprof(1)
m4(1)
make(1)
mcs(1)
nm(1)
prof(1)
prs(1)
regcmp(1)
rmdel(1)
sact(1)
sccs(1)
sccs(1-ucb)
sccsdiff(1)
size(1)
strip(1)
tsort(1)
unget(1)
val(1)
vc(1)
what(1)
xstr(1)
yacc(1)
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Networking Reference Manual
ct(1)
cu(1)
domainname(1)
finger(1)
ftp(1)
hostid(1)
hostname(1)
rcp(1)
rlogin(1)
rpcgen(1)
rsh(1)
ruptime(1)
rusers(1)
rwho(1)
talk(1)
telnet(1)
tftp(1)
uucp(1)
uudecode(1)
uuencode(1)
uuglist(1)
uulog(1)
uuname(1)
uupick(1)
uustat(1)
uuto(1)
uux(1)
whois(1)
ypcat(1)
ypmatch(1)
ypwhich(1)
NOTES
The apropos(1) [alternative call "man -k", both described under
man(1)] command is useful if you have a keyword, but are not sure what
the exact name of the relevant manual page is. For example, if you
want to find out the names of the manual pages covering the topic
"checksums", you enter:
apropos checksum
The following manual pages are then offered (no distinction is made
between uppercase and lowercase letters):
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cksum (1) - write file checksums and sizes
md5 (1) - calculate a checksum in the form of a fake-proof
fingerprint
sum (1) - print checksum and block count of a file
sum (1-ucb) - calculate a checksum for a file
SEE ALSO
intro(1), introurm(1), man(1), man-news(1), manprint(1), refnet(1),
refprm(1), refsarm(1).
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