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Networking manual pages

The networking manual pages describe commands, files, and other components of UnixWare 7 that are provided for administering and using networks.

This topic describes the UnixWare 7 networking manual page section naming scheme. For information on how to access manual pages from SCOhelp and the command line, see ``UnixWare 7 Manual Pages''.

Manual page section names

UnixWare 7 manual pages have a main section name, an optional prefix, and an optional suffix. The main section names are:


1
Unrestricted commands, which can be run by any user.

1M
Administrative commands, whose options may be fully or partially restricted to the root or owner accounts.

4
System files and file formats.

5
Miscellaneous information.
A variety of suffixes subdivide the sections further, to allow for logical groupings of manual pages by technology and to enable easy scanning:

bnu
Basic Networking Utilities (BNU).

ldap
Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP).

nfs
Network File System (NFS).

nis
Network Information Service (NIS).

snmp
Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP).

tcp
TCP/IP or the Internet protocol suite
Examples include section 1nfs (Unrestricted NFS commands) and 1Mldap (LDAP administrative commands).
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