1.3 What's in the Quick Ref

This guide presents the major features of generic SVR4, plus a few extras from the compatibility packages and from Solaris 2.0. In addition, this guide presents sections on emacs and RCS. Although they are not part of the standard SVR4 distribution, they are found on many UNIX systems because they are useful add-ons.

But keep in mind: if your system doesn't include all the component packages, there will be commands in this quick ref that you won't be able to find on your system.

The summary of UNIX commands in Section 2 makes up a large part of this book. Only user/programmer commands are included; administrative commands are ignored. Section 2 describes the following set:

• Commands from SVR3.

• New commands and options in SVR4.

• Selected commands from the compatibility packages and from Solaris 2.0, such as dbx (the debugger) and openwin (the start-up program for OpenWindows).

SVR3 users should note that many commands listed in Section 2 are not in SVR3. These include:

apropos	face	iconv	mcs	rksh	users
atq	fmli	keylogin	mkmsgs	sccs	uudecode
atrm	fmt	keylogout	nawk	script	uuencode
chkey	fmtmsg	ksh	notify	soelim	uuglist
clear	fold	ldd	openwin	srchtxt	vacation
cof2elf	gcore	lpq	pic	strings	w
compress	gencat	lpr	printenv	talk	whatis
ctags	gettxt	lprm	printf	truss	which
dbx	gprof	lprof	ptx	tset	whoami
download	head	lptest	relogin	uncompress	whois
dpost	hostid	mailalias	reset	uptime	zcat
exstr	hostname