file formats Overview file formats
The COHERENT system uses a number of different file formats.
Each format is designed to order most efficiently the information
that that file holds. This manual describes the following
special file formats:
core Core dump file format
group Group file format
passwd Password file format
ttys Active terminal ports
The following header files also hold information on file formats:
acct.h Format for process-accounting file
ar.h Format for archive files
canon.h Portable layout of binary data
dir.h Directory format
l.out.h Object file format
mtab.h Currently mounted file systems
utmp.h Login accounting information
See their respective entries in this Lexicon for a fuller
description of their contents.
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header files, Lexicon
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