INTRO(7) Standards, Environments, and Macros INTRO(7)
NAME
Intro, intro - introduction to miscellany
DESCRIPTION
Among the topics presented in this section are:
Standards The POSIX (IEEE) Standards and the X/Open
Specifications are described on the
standards page.
Environments The user environment (
environ), the subset of the
user environment that depends on language and
cultural conventions (
locale), the large file
compilation environment (
lfcompile), and the
transitional compilation environment (
lfcompile64)
are described.
Macros The macros to format Reference Manual pages (
man and
mansun) as well as other text format macros (
me,
mm,
and
ms) are described.
Characters Tables of character sets (
ascii,
charmap,
eqnchar,
and
iconv), file format notation (
formats), file name
pattern matching (
fnmatch), and regular expressions
(
regex and
regexp) are presented.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and The Open
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documentation.
In the following statement, the phrase ``this text'' refers to
portions of the system documentation.
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
in the SunOS Reference Manual, from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition,
Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System
Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue 6,
Copyright (C) 2001-2004 by the Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group. In the event of any
discrepancy between these versions and the original IEEE and The Open
Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is the
referee document. The original Standard can be obtained online at
http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html.
This notice shall appear on any product containing this material.
November 17, 2008 INTRO(7)
