Preface

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HP-UX is the Hewlett-Packard Company's implementation of a UNIX® operating system that is compatible with various industry standards. It is based on the System V Release 4 operating system and includes important features from the Fourth Berkeley Software Distribution.

This manual contains the system reference documentation, made up of individual entries called manpages, named for the man command (see man(1)) that displays them on the system. The individual entries are also known as manual pages and reference pages.

General Introduction

For a general introduction to HP-UX and the structure and format of the manpages, please see the introduction(9) manpage.

Section Introductions

The manpages are divided into sections that also have introduction, or intro, manpages that describe the contents. These are:

intro(1): Part I “Section 1: User Commands”
intro(1M): Part II “Section 1M: System Administration Commands”
intro(2): Part III “Section 2: System Calls”
intro(3C): Part IV “Section 3: Library Functions”
intro(4): Part V “Section 4: File Formats”
intro(5): Part VI “Section 5: Miscellaneous Topics”
intro(7): Part VII “Section 7: Device (Special) Files”
intro(9): Part VIII “Section 9: General Information”

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