A/UX® Programmer's Reference

commands, backing up your system, and charting your system's
activity. These commands generally reside in the directories
fete, /usr/ete,and /usr/lib.
These areas can overlap. For example, if you are the only person using
your machine, then you are both the general user and the system
administrator.
To help direct you to the correct manual, you may refer to A/UX Reference
Summary and Index, which is a separate volume. This manual
summarizes information contained in the other NUX reference manuals.
The three parts of this manual are a classification of commands by
function, a listing of command synopses, and an index.
3. How the reference manuals are organized
All manual pages are grouped by section. The sections are grouped by
general function and are numbered according to standard conventions
as follows:
1 User commands
1M System maintenance commands
2 System calls
3 Subroutines
4 File formats
5 Miscellaneous facilities
6 Games
7 Drivers and interfaces for devices
8 NUX Startup shell commands
Manual pages are collated alphabetically by the primary name associated
with each. For the individual sections, a table of contents is provided
to show the sequence of manual pages. A notable exception to
the alphabetical sequence of manual pages is the first entry at the start
of each section. As a representative example, intro.1 appears at
the start of Section 1. These intro. section-number manual pages
are brought to the front of each section because they introduce the
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