Preface

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

This manual contains the system reference documentation, which we call manpages. The individual entries are also known as manual pages and reference pages. For an introduction to HP-UX and the structure and format of the manpages, please see the introduction(9) manpage.

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: 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”
intro(7): Part VII “Section 7: Device Files”
intro(9): Part VIII “Section 9: Glossary”

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