Section7
From Linux Man Pages
Miscellaneous (including macro packages and conventions), e.g. man(7), groff(7)
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A
arp - Linux ARP kernel module.
ascii - the ASCII character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
B
boot-scripts - General description of boot sequence
bootparam - Introduction to boot time parameters of the Linux kernel
C
capabilities - overview of Linux capabilities
charsets - programmer's view of character sets and internationalization
D
ddp - Linux AppleTalk protocol implementation
G
glob - Globbing pathnames
GnuPG - The GNU Privacy Guard suite of programs
This manual page describes what pointer types (mice, tablets, etc) are currently managed by gpm.
The information below is extracted from the texinfo file, which is the preferred source of information.
groff - a short reference for the GNU roff language
groff_char - groff character names
groff_man - groff `man' macros to support generation of man pages
7:groff_mdoc
groff_me - troff macros for formatting papers
groff_mm - groff mm macros
7:groff_mmse
groff_ms - groff ms macros
groff_mwww - groff macros for authoring web pages
H
hier - Description of the file system hierarchy
I
icmp, IPPROTO_ICMP - Linux IPv4 ICMP kernel module.
INIT.D - The SuSE boot concept
intro - Introduction to conventions and miscellany section
ip - Linux IPv4 protocol implementation
ipv6, PF_INET6 - Linux IPv6 protocol implementation
isdn_cause - Description of ISDN cause messages.
7:iso_8859_1
7:iso_8859_15
7:iso_8859_16
7:iso_8859_2
7:iso_8859_7
7:iso_8859_9
iso_8859-1 - the ISO 8859-1 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
iso_8859-15 - the ISO 8859-15 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
iso_8859-16 - the ISO 8859-16 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
iso_8859-2 - the ISO 8859-2 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
iso_8859-7 - the ISO 8859-7 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
iso_8859-9 - the ISO 8859-9 character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
7:iso-8859-1
7:iso-8859-15
7:iso-8859-16
7:iso-8859-2
7:iso-8859-7
7:iso-8859-9
K
koi8-r - Russian Net Character Set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
L
7:latin1
7:latin10
7:latin2
7:latin5
7:latin9
LDP - Intro to the Linux Documentation Project, with help, guides and documents
locale - Description of multi-language support
M
mailaddr - mail addressing description
man - macros to format man pages
7:mdoc
7:mdoc.samples
mmroff - reference preprocessor
N
netdevice - Low level access to Linux network devices.
netlink, PF_NETLINK - Communication between kernel and user.
nfsd - special filesystem for controlling Linux NFS server
O
opensc - Smart Card library and applications with support for PKCS #15 compatible smart cards and similar security tokens
7:operator
P
packet, PF_PACKET - packet interface on device level.
pilot-link - a suite of tools for communicating with Palm handhelds, such as those made from Palm, Handspring, Handera, TRGPro, Sony or other Palm Compatible Handheld PDA device.
7:pkcs15
posixoptions - optional parts of the POSIX standard
R
raw, SOCK_RAW - Linux IPv4 raw sockets
regex - POSIX 1003.2 regular expressions
roff - a survey of the roff typesetting system
rtnetlink, NETLINK_ROUTE - Linux IPv4 routing socket.
S
signal - list of available signals
socket - Linux socket interface
suffixes - list of file suffixes
T
tcp - TCP protocol.
term - conventions for naming terminal types
U
udp - User Datagram Protocol for IPv4
Unicode - the Universal Character Set
units, kilo, kibi, mega, mebi, giga, gibi - decimal and binary prefixes
unix, PF_UNIX, AF_UNIX, PF_LOCAL, AF_LOCAL - Sockets for local interprocess communication.
uri, url, urn - uniform resource identifier (URI), including a URL or URN
7:url
7:utf8
UTF-8 - an ASCII compatible multi-byte Unicode encoding
W
wireless - Wireless Tools and Wireless Extensions