Intro(FP) 6 January 1993 Intro(FP) Name Intro - introduction to file formats for programmers Description This section outlines the formats of various files. The C structure declarations for the file formats are given where applicable. Usually, these structures can be found in the directories /usr/include or /usr/include/sys The following is a listing of the manual pages found in this section and a brief description of the information in each. Manual page Description _____________________________________________________________________________ 86rel(FP) Intel 8086 Relocatable Format for Object Modules acct(FP) format of per-process accounting file a.out(FP) UNIX common assembler and link editor output ar(FP) archive file format core(FP) format of core image file dirent(FP) filesystem-independent directory entry dir(FP) format of a directory filehdr(FP) file header for common object files filesystem(FP) format of filesystem types inode(FP) format of an inode Intro(FP) introduction to file formats for programmers langinfo(FP) language information constants lconv(FP) Internationalization (native language support) information ldfcn(FP) common object file access routines limits(FP) header file for implementation-specific constants linenum(FP) line number entries in a common object file mallinfo(FP) malloc (libmalloc) information mem(FP) discusses access to the computer's physical and virtual memory mfsys(FP) configuration file for filesystem types msg(FP) IPC message structures netbuf(FP) TLI/XTI network buffer structure nl_types(FP) data types for native language support nssend(FP) name server request structure null(FP) the null file passwd(FP) password entry structure plot(FP) graphics interface pnch(FP) file format for card images proc(FP) process table structure reloc(FP) relocation information for a common object file sccsfile(FP) format of an SCCS file scnhdr(FP) section header for a common object file scr_dump(FP) format of curses screen image file sem(FP) controls structures for UNIX System V semaphores sfsys(FP) local filesystem type file shm(FP) IPC shared memory structures stat(FP) data returned by stat system call syms(FP) common object file symbol table format t_info(FP) TLI and XTI transport protocol structure types(FP) primitive system data types unistd(FP) file header for symbolic constants x.out(FP) format of XENIX link editor output