Section 0

Index into this File Starting with these Letters:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

- A -

• A2P (1) - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool
• AB (1) - Apache HTTP server benchmarking tool
• ABORT (3) - cause abnormal program termination
• ABORT (L) - Aborts the current transaction
• ABS (3) - computes the absolute value of an integer.
• AC (1) - print statistics about users' connect time
• ACCEL (6) - tests the new style svgalib accelerator interface
• ACCEPT (2) - accept a connection on a socket
• ACCESS (1) - determine whether a file can be accessed
• ACCESS (2) - check user's permissions for a file
• ACCT (2) - switch process accounting on or off
• ACCT (5) - execution accounting file
• ACCTON (8) - turns process accounting on or off
• ACOS (3) - arc cosine function
• ACOSH (3) - inverse hyperbolic cosine function
• ACTIVE (5) - list of active Usenet newsgroups
• ACTIVED (8) - a daemon to handle nnrpd requests for active file information.
• ACTSYNC (8) - synchronize newsgroups
• ACTSYNCD (8) - run actsync to synchronize newsgroups
• ADDFTINFO (1) - add information to troff font files for use with groff
• ADDHOSTS (3) - Add hosts to the virtual machine.
• ADDMHF (3) - Install message-handler functions.
• ADDR2LINE (1) - convert addresses into file names and line numbers
• ADJTIMEX (2) - tune kernel clock
• ADVISE (3) - Controls use of direct task-to-task routing.
• AFM2TFM (1) - convert Adobe font metrics to TeX font metrics
• AFMTODIT (1) - create font files for use with groff -Tps
• AFTER (N) - Execute a command after a time delay
• AHA152X_CS (4) - Adaptec AHA-152X compatible PCMCIA device driver
• AIMK (1) - Portable make wrapper script
• ALARM (2) - set an alarm clock for delivery of a signal
• ALI (1) - list mail aliases
• ALIASES (5) - aliases
• ALLCM (1) - force the most important Computer-Modern-fonts to be calculated
• ALLOCA (3) - memory allocator
• ALL_HASH (3) - general purpose hash table management (LAM)
• ALL_LIST (3) - general purpose list management package (LAM)
• ALL_OPT (3) - general purpose command-line options parsing (LAM)
• ALL_QUEUE (3) - general purpose queue management package (LAM)
• ALTER_TABLE (L) - Modifies table properties
• ALTER_USER (L) - Modifies user account information
• AMD (8) - automatically mount file systems
• AMD.CONF (8) - amd configuration file
• AMDXREF (8) - perform cross referencing checks on AMD map files
• AMQ (8) - automounter query tool
• AMSTEX (1) - structured text formatting and typesetting
• ANACRON (8) - runs commands periodically
• ANACRONTAB (5) - configuration file for anacron
• ANIMATE (1) - display a sequence of images on any workstation running X
• ANNO (1) - annotate messages
• ANOTHERLEVEL (1) - The Default Red Hat Desktop
• ANSWER (1) - phone message transcription system
• ANYTOPNM (1) - attempt to convert an unknown type of image file to a portable anymap
• AP (8) - parse addresses 822-style
• APACHECTL (1) - Apache HTTP server control interface
• APM (1) - query Advanced Power Management (APM) BIOS
• APMD (8) - Advanced Power Management (APM) daemon
• APPEND (N) - Append to variable
• APPSCHEMA (5) - LAM application schema format
• APROPOS (1) - search the whatis database for strings
• APXS (8) - APache eXtenSion tool
• AR (1) - create, modify, and extract from archives.
• ARCH (1) - print machine architecture
• ARCHCODE (3) - Returns the data representation code for a
• ARCHIVE (8) - Usenet article archiver
• ARP (7) - Linux ARP kernel module.
• ARP (8) - manipulate the system ARP cache
• ARPING (8) - Ping
  on device by ARP packets,
• ARPSNMP (8) - keep track of ethernet/ip address pairings
• ARRAY (N) - Manipulate array variables
• AS (1) - the portable GNU assembler.
• AS86 (1) - Assembler for 8086..80386 processors
• ASCII (-) - xfr - upload/download files using the ASCII protocol
• ASCII (7) - the ASCII character set encoded in octal, decimal, and hexadecimal
• ASCIITOPGM (1) - convert ASCII graphics into a portable graymap
• ASIN (3) - arc sine function
• ASINH (3) - inverse hyperbolic sine function
• ASSERT (3) - Abort the program if assertion is false.
• AT (1) - queue, examine or delete jobs for later execution
• ATAN (3) - arc tangent function
• ATAN2 (3) - arc tangent function of two variables
• ATANH (3) - inverse hyperbolic tangent function
• ATD (8) - run jobs queued for later execution
• ATEXIT (3) - register a function to be called at normal program termination.
• ATKTOPBM (1) - convert Andrew Toolkit raster object to portable bitmap
• ATOF (3) - convert a string to a double.
• ATOI (3) - convert a string to an integer.
• ATOL (3) - convert a string to a long integer.
• ATRUN (8) - run jobs queued for later execution
• AUDIOCOMPOSE (1) - Compose an audio fragment for inclusion in a mail message
• AUDIOSEND (1) - Send an audio email message
• AUMIX (1) - aumix, xaumix
• AUTHCONFIG (8) - simple interface for configuring system authorization resources
• AUTHKEY (1) - create authKey for cmu snmpd and cmu managing applications
• AUTOEXPECT (1) - generate an Expect script from watching a session
• AUTOMOUNT2AMD (8) - converts old Sun automount maps to Amd maps
• AUTORUN (1) - pattern scanning and processing language

- B -

• BADBLOCKS (8) - search a device for bad blocks
• BANNER (6) - print large banner on printer
• BARRIER (3) - Blocks the calling process until all processes
• BASENAME (1) - strip directory and suffix from filenames
• BASH (1) - GNU Bourne-Again SHell
• BATCHER (8) - article batching backend for InterNetNews
• BC (1) - An arbitrary precision calculator language
• BCAST (3) - Broadcasts the data in the active
• BCC (1) - Bruce's C compiler
• BCMP (3) - compare byte strings
• BCOPY (3) - copy byte strings
• BDFLUSH (2) - start, flush, or tune buffer-dirty-flush daemon
• BDFLUSH (8) - kernel daemon to flush dirty buffers back to disk.
• BEGIN (L) - Begins a transaction in chained mode
• BELL (N) - Ring a display's bell
• BFCTL (1) - Control LAM buffers.
• BFSTATE (1) - Report status of LAM buffers.
• BGERROR (N) - Command invoked to process background errors
• BG_TEST (6) - test the background mode of svgalib
• BHOST (5) - LAM boot schema (host file) format
• BIBTEX (1) - make a bibliography for (La)TeX
• BIFF (1) - biff
• BINARY (N) - Insert and extract fields from binary strings
• BIND (2) - bind a name to a socket
• BIND (N) - Arrange for X events to invoke Tcl scripts
• BINDRESVPORT (3) - bind a socket to a privileged IP port
• BINDTAGS (N) - Determine which bindings apply to a window, and order of evaluation
• BIORADTOPGM (1) - convert a Biorad confocal file into a portable graymap
• BISON (1) - GNU Project parser generator (yacc replacement)
• BITMAP (N) - Images that display two colors
• BKI (5) - *.bki
• BMPTOPPM (1) - convert a BMP file into a portable pixmap
• BOOTPARAM (7) - Introduction to boot time parameters of the Linux kernel
• BOOTPARAMD (8) - bootparamd
• BREAK (N) - Abort looping command
• BRK (2) - change data segment size
• BRUSHTOPBM (1) - convert a doodle brush file into a portable bitmap
• BSEARCH (3) - binary search of a sorted array.
• BSTRING (3) - bcmp, bcopy, bzero, memccpy, memchr, memcmp, memcpy, memfrob, memmem,
• BTOWC (3) - convert single byte to wide character
• BTREE (3) - btree database access method
• BUFFCHAN (8) - buffered file-writing backend for InterNetNews
• BUFINFO (3) - Returns information about a message buffer.
• BURST (1) - explode digests into messages
• BUTTON (N) - Create and manipulate button widgets
• BYTEORDER (3) - convert values between host and network
• BZERO (3) - write zeros to a byte string
• BZIP2 (1) - a block-sorting file compressor, v0.9.5

- C -

• C (+) - demangle C++ symbols
• C2PH (1) - cal
• CACHEFLUSH (2) - flush contents of instruction and/or data cache
• CANVAS (N) - Create and manipulate canvas widgets
• CAPGET (2) - set/get process capabilities
• CARDCTL (1) - PCMCIA card monitor and control utility for X
• CARDCTL (8) - PCMCIA card control utility
• CARDMGR (8) - PCMCIA device manager
• CASE (N) - Evaluate one of several scripts, depending on a given value
• CAT (1) - concatenate files and print on the standard output
• CATCH (N) - Evaluate script and trap exceptional returns
• CATCHOUT (3) - Catch output from child tasks.
• CATGETS (3) - get message from a message catalog
• CATOPEN (3) - open/close a message catalog
• CBRT (3) - cube root function
• CD (N) - Change working directory
• CDP (1) - - an interactive text-mode program for controlling
• CEIL (3) - smallest integral value not less than x
• CENTIPEDE (8) - LDAP centroid index generation and maintenance program
• CFDISK (8) - Curses based disk partition table manipulator for Linux
• CHAGE (1) - change user password expiry information
• CHARMAP (5) - character symbols to define character encodings
• CHARSET (1) - Set an ACM for use in one of the G0/G1 charset slots.
• CHARSETS (4) - programmer's view of character sets and internationalization
• CHARSETS (7) - programmer's view of character sets and internationalization
• CHAT (8) - Automated conversational script with a modem
• CHATTR (1) - change file attributes on a Linux second extended file system
• CHDIR (2) - change working directory
• CHECKALIAS (1) - check to see if an alias is defined.
• CHECKBUTTON (N) - Create and manipulate checkbutton widgets
• CHFN (1) - change your finger information
• CHGRP (1) - change group ownership
• CHKCONFIG (8) - updates and queries runlevel information for system services
• CHKFONTPATH (8) - simple interface for adding, removing, and listing
• CHLOG2REPLOG (8) - convert an X.500 DSA-style changelog to an LDAP-style
• CHMOD (1) - change file access permissions
• CHMOD (2) - change permissions of a file
• CHOWN (1) - change file owner and group
• CHOWN (2) - change ownership of a file
• CHPASSWD (8) - update password file in batch
• CHROOT (1) - run command or interactive shell with special root directory
• CHROOT (2) - change root directory
• CHROOT (8) - change root directory and execute a program there
• CHSH (1) - change your login shell
• CHVT (1) - change foreground virtual terminal
• CI (1) - check in RCS revisions
• CJPEG (1) - compress an image file to a JPEG file
• CKRAID (8) - obsolete
• CKSUM (1) - checksum and count the bytes in a file
• CLEANFEED (8) - Measures clock difference between us and with 1msec
• CLEAR (1) - clear the terminal screen
• CLIPBOARD (N) - Manipulate Tk clipboard
• CLOCK (3) - Determine processor time
• CLOCK (8) - query and set the hardware clock (RTC)
• CLOCK (N) - Obtain and manipulate time
• CLONE (2) - create a child process
• CLOSE (2) - close a file descriptor
• CLOSE (L) - Close a cursor
• CLOSE (N) - Close an open channel.
• CLOSEDIR (3) - close a directory
• CLUSTER (L) - Gives storage clustering advice to the server
• CMAIL (6) - an email chess helper
• CMP (1) - cmp
• CMSG (3) - Access ancillary data.
• CMUWMTOPBM (1) - convert a CMU window manager bitmap into a portable bitmap
• CNFSSTAT (8) - show snapshot of CNFS
• CO (1) - check out RCS revisions
• COL (1) - col
• COLCRT (1) - colcrt
• COLRM (1) - colrm
• COLUMN (1) - column
• COMBINE (1) - combine images to create new images.
• COMM (1) - compare two sorted files line by line
• COMMIT (L) - Commits the current transaction
• COMP (1) - compose a message
• COMPRESS (1) - compress and expand data (version 4.1)
• COMSAT (8) - comsat
• CONCAT (N) - Join lists together
• CONF (5) - LAM node process schema
• CONFIG (3) - Returns information about the present virtual machine
• CONFIGURE (1) - prepare source code to be built
• CONFLICT (8) - search for alias/password conflicts
• CONFSTR (3) - get configuration dependent string variables
• CONNECT (2) - initiate a connection on a socket
• CONSOLE (4) - console terminal and virtual consoles
• CONSOLE.APPS (5) - specify console-accessible priviledged applications
• CONSOLE.PERMS (5) - permissions control file for users at the system console
• CONSOLECHARS (8) - load EGA/VGA console screen font, screen-font map, and/or
• CONSOLEHELPER (8) - A wrapper that helps console users run system programs
• CONSOLETYPE (1) - consoletype
• CONSOLE_CODES (4) - Linux console escape and control sequences
• CONSOLE_IOCTLS (4) - ioctl's for console terminal and virtual consoles
• CONSTANTS (5) - constants for LAM Fortran programming
• CONTEXT (3) - Request new context.
• CONTINUE (N) - Skip to the next iteration of a loop
• CONTROL (-) - panel - Launches the various Red Hat system administration tools.
• CONTROL.CTL (5) - specify handling of Usenet control messages
• CONTROLCHAN (8) - channel-fed control message handler
• CONVDATE (1) - convert time/date strings and numbers
• CONVERT (1) - converts an input file using one image format to an output
• CONVFONT (1) - convert font files for svgalib
• COPY (L) - Copies data between files and tables
• COPYSIGN (3) - copy sign of a number
• COS (3) - cosine function
• COSH (3) - hyperbolic cosine function
• CP (1) - copy files and directories
• CPIO (1) - copy files to and from archives
• CPP (1) - The GNU C-Compatible Compiler Preprocessor.
• CPROTO (1) - generate C function prototypes and convert function definitions
• CREATEDB (1) - Create a new Postgres database
• CREATELANG (1) - Add a new programming language to a Postgres database
• CREATEUSER (1) - Create a new Postgres user
• CREATE_AGGREGATE (L) - Defines a new aggregate function
• CREATE_DATABASE (L) - Creates a new database
• CREATE_FUNCTION (L) - Defines a new function
• CREATE_INDEX (L) - Constructs a secondary index
• CREATE_LANGUAGE (L) - Defines a new language for functions
• CREATE_MODULE (2) - create a loadable module entry
• CREATE_OPERATOR (L) - Defines a new user operator
• CREATE_RULE (L) - Defines a new rule
• CREATE_SEQUENCE (L) - Creates a new sequence number generator
• CREATE_TABLE (L) - Creates a new table
• CREATE_TABLE_AS (L) - Creates a new table
• CREATE_TRIGGER (L) - Creates a new trigger
• CREATE_TYPE (L) - Defines a new base data type
• CREATE_USER (L) - Creates account information for a new user
• CREATE_VIEW (L) - Constructs a virtual table
• CRON (8) - daemon to execute scheduled commands (Vixie Cron)
• CRONTAB (1) - maintain crontab files for individual users (V3)
• CRONTAB (5) - tables for driving cron
• CROSSPOST (8) - create the links for cross posted articles
• CRYPT (3) - password and data encryption
• CRYPTDIR (1) - encrypt/decrypt all files in a directory
• CSH (1) - csh
• CSPLIT (1) - split a file into sections determined by context lines
• CTAGS (1) - Generate tag files for source code
• CTERMID (3) - get controlling terminal name
• CTIME (3) - transform binary date and time
• CTLINND (8) - control the InterNetNews daemon
• CTRLALTDEL (8) - set the function of the Ctrl-Alt-Del combination
• CU (1) - Call up another system
• CUBES (6) - Cubes X widget
• CUT (1) - remove sections from each line of files
• CVS (1) - print or set the system date and time
• CVS (5) - Concurrent Versions System support files
• CVSBUG (1) - send problem report (PR) about CVS to a central support site
• CVTBATCH (8) - convert Usenet batch file to INN format
• CYCBUFF.CONF (5) - configuration file for CNFS method
• CYTUNE (8) - Tune Cyclades driver parameters

- D -

• DAEMON (3) - run in the background
• DBIMON (1) - Create and update user authentication files in DBM format
• DBOPEN (3) - database access methods
• DC (1) - an arbitrary precision calculator
• DD (1) - convert and copy a file
• DDATE (1) - converts Gregorian dates to Discordian dates
• DDLP (1) - Data Definition Language Processor
• DDP (4) - Linux AppleTalk protocol implementation
• DDP (7) - Linux AppleTalk protocol implementation
• DEALLOCVT (1) - deallocate unused virtual terminals
• DEBUGFS (8) - ext2 file system debugger
• DECLARE (L) - Defines a cursor for table access
• DELETE (3) - delete data from pvmd database
• DELETE (L) - Deletes rows from a table
• DELETE_MODULE (2) - delete a loadable module entry
• DELHOSTS (3) - Deletes hosts from the virtual machine.
• DEPMOD (1) - handle loadable modules automatically
• DEPMOD (8) - handle dependency descriptions for loadable kernel modules
• DESTROYDB (1) - Remove an existing Postgres database
• DESTROYLANG (1) - Add a programming language to a Postgres database
• DESTROYUSER (1) - Destroy a Postgres user and associated databases
• DF (1) - report filesystem disk space usage
• DHCPCD (8) - DHCP client daemon
• DIALOG (1) - display dialog boxes from shell scripts
• DIFF (1) - find differences between two files
• DIFF3 (1) - find differences between three files
• DIFFSTAT (1) - make histogram from diff-output
• DIFFTIME (3) - calculate time difference
• DIG (1) - dig
• DIP (8) - handle dialup IP connections
• DIR (1) - list directory contents
• DIRCOLORS (1) - color setup for ls
• DIRNAME (1) - strip non-directory suffix from file name
• DIR_COLORS (5) - configuration file for dircolors(1)
• DISLOCATE (1) - disconnect and reconnect processes
• DISPLAY (1) - display an image on any workstation running X
• DIST (1) - redistribute a message to additional addresses
• DISTRIB.PATS (5) - default values for Usenet Distribution header
• DIV (3) - computes the quotient and remainder of integer division
• DJPEG (1) - decompress a JPEG file to an image file
• DLOPEN (3) - Programming interface to dynamic linking loader.
• DLPSH (1) - command shell for executing DLP commands to a USR Pilot
• DMESG (8) - print or control the kernel ring buffer
• DMP (1) - translate Troff output to low-level MetaPost input
• DNSKEYGEN (1) - dnskeygen
• DNSQUERY (1) - dnsquery
• DOEXEC (1) - run an executable with an arbitrary argv[0]
• DOOM (1) - Deliver a signal to a LAM process.
• DOS (1) - run MS-DOS and MS-DOS programs under Linux
• DOSFSCK (8) - check and repair MS-DOS file systems
• DP (8) - parse dates 822-style
• DRAND48 (3) - drand48, erand48, lrand48, nrand48, mrand48, jrand48, srand48, seed48,
• DREM (3) - floating-point remainder function
• DROP_AGGREGATE (L) - Removes the definition of an aggregate function
• DROP_DATABASE (L) - Destroys an existing database
• DROP_FUNCTION (L) - Removes a user-defined C function
• DROP_INDEX (L) - Removes an index from a database
• DROP_LANGUAGE (L) - Removes a user-defined procedural language
• DROP_OPERATOR (L) - Removes an operator from the database
• DROP_RULE (L) - Removes an existing rule from the database
• DROP_SEQUENCE (L) - Removes an existing sequence
• DROP_TABLE (L) - Removes existing tables from a database
• DROP_TRIGGER (L) - Removes the definition of a trigger
• DROP_TYPE (L) - Removes a user-defined type from the system catalogs
• DROP_USER (L) - Removes an user account information
• DROP_VIEW (L) - Removes an existing view from a database
• DSEND (2) - Send and receive LAM datalink
• DSP56K (4) - DSP56001 interface device
• DU (1) - estimate file space usage
• DUMMY_CS (4) - PCMCIA dummy device driver
• DUMP (8) - dump
• DUMPE2FS (8) - dump filesystem information
• DUMPKEYS (1) - dump keyboard translation tables
• DUMPREG (1) - dump the state of the card as the svgalib chipset driver sees it.
• DUMP_CIS (8) - display PCMCIA Card Information Structures
• DUP (2) - duplicate a file descriptor
• DVICOPY (1) - produce modified copy of DVI file
• DVILJK (1) - convert a TeX DVI file to PCL, for HP LaserJet printers
• DVIPS (1) - convert a TeX DVI file to PostScript
• DVIRED (1) - print dvi-files
• DVITYPE (1) - translate a dvi file for humans
• D_CLOSE (1) - open a database
• D_CRGET (1) - get the database address of the current record
• D_CRREAD (1) - read a field from the current record
• D_CRSET (1) - set the current record
• D_DBDPATH (1) - set the path of the dbd-files
• D_DBFPATH (1) - set the path of the database files
• D_DBGET (1) - get the id of the current database
• D_DELETE (1) - delete the current record
• D_FILLNEW (1) - insert a new record
• D_KEYFIND (1) - search an index for a specific key value
• D_KEYFRST (1) - find the first key value in an index
• D_KEYLAST (1) - find the last key value in an index
• D_KEYNEXT (1) - find the next key value in an index
• D_KEYPREV (1) - find the previous key value in an index
• D_KEYREAD (1) - read the most recently found key
• D_OPEN (1) - open a database
• D_RECFRST (1) - find the first record in a table
• D_RECLAST (1) - find the last record in a table
• D_RECNEXT (1) - find the next record in a table
• D_RECPREV (1) - find the previous record in a table
• D_RECREAD (1) - read the contents of the current record
• D_RECWRITE (1) - update the current record
• D_SETFILES (1) - set the maximum number of open files

- E -

• E2FSCK (8) - check a Linux second extended file system
• E2LABEL (8) - Change the label on an ext2 filesystem
• ECHO (1) - display a line of text
• ECPG (1) - Embedded SQL C preprocessor
• ECVT (3) - convert a floating-point number to a string.
• ED (1) - text editor
• EDB2LDIF (8) - QUIPU EDB file to LDIF conversion tool
• EDQUOTA (8) - edit user quotas
• EFENCE (3) - Electric Fence Malloc Debugger
• EJECT (1) - eject removable media
• ELKSEMU (1) - Embedded Linux Kernel Environment emulator
• ELM (1) - an interactive mail system
• ELMALIAS (1) - expand and display Elm address aliases
• EMACS (1) - GNU project Emacs
• ENGLISH (4) - flag format for English ispell dictionaries
• ENGLISH (5) - flag format for English ispell dictionaries
• ENTRY (N) - Create and manipulate entry widgets
• ENV (1) - run a program in a modified environment
• ENVIRON (5) - user environment
• EOF (N) - Check for end of file condition on channel
• EPLAIN (1) - extended plain TeX
• EQN (1) - format equations for troff
• ERF (3) - error function and complementary error function
• ERRNO (3) - number of last error
• ERROR (N) - Generate an error
• ETAGS (1) - generate tag file for Emacs, vi
• ETEX (1) - extended TeX
• ETHERS (5) - Ethernet address to IP number database
• EVAL (N) - Evaluate a Tcl script
• EVENT (N) - Miscellaneous event facilities: define virtual events and generate events
• EVENTTEST (6) - test the waitevent function of svgalib
• EXEC (3) - execute a file
• EXEC (N) - Invoke subprocess(es)
• EXECVE (2) - execute program
• EXIT (3) - Tells the local pvmd that this process is leaving PVM.
• EXIT (N) - End the application
• EXMH TOUR (1) - An introduction to the exmh mail user interface.
• EXP (3) - exponential, logarithmic and power functions
• EXPAND (1) - convert tabs to spaces
• EXPECT (1) - programmed dialogue with interactive programs, Version 5
• EXPECTK (1) - Expect with Tk support
• EXPIRE (8) - Usenet article and history expiration program
• EXPIRE.CTL (5) - control file for Usenet article expiration
• EXPIREINDEX (8) - Expire entries from the news overview index
• EXPIREOVER (8) - Expire entries from the news overview database
• EXPIRERM (8) - remove articles that have been expired.
• EXPLAIN (L) - Shows statement execution details
• EXPM1 (3) - exponential minus 1, logarithm of 1 plus argument
• EXPORT (3) - Mark environment variables to export through spawn
• EXPORTFS (8) - maintain list of NFS exported file systems
• EXPORTS (5) - NFS file systems being exported (for Kernel based NFS)
• EXPR (1) - evaluate expressions
• EXPR (N) - Evaluate an expression
• EXTCOMPOSE (1) - Compose a reference to external data for inclusion in a mail message

- F -

• FABS (3) - absolute value of floating-point number
• FAILLOG (5) - Login failure logging file
• FAILLOG (8) - examine faillog and set login failure limits
• FALSE (1) - do nothing, unsuccessfully
• FASTMAIL (1) - quick batch mail interface to a single address
• FASTRM (1) - quickly remove a set of files
• FAX2PS (1) - convert a
• FAX2TIFF (1) - create a
• FBLOCKED (N) - Test whether the last input operation exhausted all available input
• FCLOSE (3) - close a stream
• FCNTL (2) - manipulate file descriptor
• FCONFIGURE (N) - Set and get options on a channel
• FCOPY (N) - Copy data from one channel to another.
• FCTL (1) - Control a LAM remote file daemon.
• FD (4) - floppy disk device
• FDATASYNC (2) - synchronize a file's in-core data with that on disk
• FDFORMAT (8) - Low-level formats a floppy disk
• FDISK (8) - Partition table manipulator for Linux
• FERROR (3) - check and reset stream status
• FETCH (L) - Gets rows using a cursor
• FETCHMAIL (1) - fetch mail from a POP, IMAP, or ETRN-capable server
• FFLUSH (3) - flush a stream
• FFS (3) - find first bit set in a word
• FGCONSOLE (1) - print the number of the active VT.
• FGETGRENT (3) - get group file entry
• FGETPWENT (3) - get password file entry
• FGETWC (3) - read a wide character from a FILE stream
• FGETWS (3) - read a wide character string from a FILE stream
• FIFO (4) - first-in first-out special file, named pipe
• FILE (1) - file
• FILE (N) - Manipulate file names and attributes
• FILECHAN (8) - file-writing backend for InterNetNews
• FILEEVENT (N) - Execute a script when a channel becomes readable or writable
• FILENAME (N) - File name conventions supported by Tcl commands
• FILESYSTEMS (5) - Linux filesystem types: minix, ext, ext2, xia, msdos,
• FIND (1) - search for files in a directory hierarchy
• FINGER (1) - finger
• FINGERD (8) - fingerd
• FITSTOPNM (1) - convert a FITS file into a portable anymap
• FIX132X43 (1) - fix problems with certain (132 column) graphics modes
• FIXMOUNT (8) - fix remote mount entries
• FLEX (1) - fast lexical analyzer generator
• FLIST (1) - list the number of messages in given sequence(s)
• FLOCK (2) - apply or remove an advisory lock on an open file
• FLOOR (3) - largest integral value not greater than x
• FLUSH (N) - Flush buffered output for a channel
• FMOD (3) - floating-point remainder function
• FMT (1) - simple optimal text formatter
• FMTDUMP (8) - decode nmh format files
• FMVJ18X_CS (4) - Fujitsu FMV-J18x series device driver
• FNMATCH (3) - match filename or pathname
• FOCUS (N) - Manage the input focus
• FOLD (1) - wrap each input line to fit in specified width
• FOLDER (1) - set/list current folder/message
• FONT (N) - Create and inspect fonts.
• FONTEXPORT (1) - export fonts from the teTeX directory structure
• FONTIMPORT (1) - import fonts into the teTeX directory structure
• FOPEN (3) - stream open functions
• FOR (N) - ``For'' loop
• FOREACH (N) - Iterate over all elements in one or more lists
• FORK (2) - create a child process
• FORKTEST (6) - tests the vga_safety_fork() function.
• FORMAIL (1) - mail (re)formatter
• FORMAT (N) - Format a string in the style of sprintf
• FORTUNE (6) - print a random, hopefully interesting, adage
• FORW (1) - forward messages
• FPATHCONF (3) - get configuration values for files
• FPUTWC (3) - write a wide character to a FILE stream
• FPUTWS (3) - write a wide character string to a FILE stream
• FRAME (N) - Create and manipulate frame widgets
• FREAD (3) - binary stream input/output
• FREE (1) - Display amount of free and used memory in the system
• FREEBUF (3) - Disposes of a message buffer.
• FREEZEGROUP (3) - Freezes dynamic group membership and caches info locally
• FREXP (3) - convert floating-point number to fractional and integral
• FRM (1) - list from and subject of selected messages in mailbox or folder
• FSCK (8) - check and repair a Linux file system
• FSEEK (3) - reposition a stream
• FSINFO (8) - co-ordinate site-wide filesystem information
• FSTAB (5) - static information about the filesystems
• FSTATE (1) - Report information on LAM remote file daemon.
• FSTOPGM (1) - convert a Usenix FaceSaver(tm) file into a portable graymap
• FSYNC (2) - synchronize a file's complete in-core state with that on disk
• FTIME (3) - return date and time
• FTL_CHECK (1) - Flash Translation Layer format checker
• FTL_CS (4) - Flash Translation Layer driver for PCMCIA memory cards
• FTL_FORMAT (1) - Flash Translation Layer formatting utility
• FTOK (3) - convert a pathname and a project identifier to a System V IPC key
• FTP (1) - ftp
• FTPACCESS (5) - ftpd conversions database
• FTPCOUNT (1) - show current number of users for each class
• FTPD (8) - Internet File Transfer Protocol server
• FTPHOSTS (5) - ftpd individual user host access file
• FTPRESTART (8) - restart previously shutdown ftp servers
• FTPSERVERS (5) - ftpd virtual hosting configuration specification file
• FTPSHUT (8) - close down the ftp servers at a given time
• FTPWHO (1) - show current process information for each ftp user.
• FTS (3) - fts ,
• FTW (3) - file tree walk
• FULL (4) - always full device
• FUN (6) - draw pixels accumulating in clusters
• FUNZIP (1) - filter for extracting from a ZIP archive in a pipe
• FUSER (1) - identify processes using files or sockets
• FVWMBUTTONS (1) - the FVWM buttonbox module
• FVWMCOMMAND (1) - FVWM2 command external interface
• FVWMCONSOLE (1) - an FVWM command input interface
• FVWMCONSOLEC.PL (1) - Command editor for FVWM command input interface
• FVWMREARRANGE (1) - rearrange FVWM windows
• FWIDE (3) - set and determine the orientation of a FILE stream

- G -

• G (+) - GNU project C++ Compiler
• G3TOPBM (1) - convert a Group 3 fax file into a portable bitmap
• GATHER (3) - A specified member of the group receives messages
• GAWK (1) - pattern scanning and processing language
• GCC (1) - GNU project C and C++ Compiler (egcs-1.1.2)
• GCVT (3) - convert a floating-point number to a string.
• GDB (1) - The GNU Debugger
• GDBM (3) - The GNU database manager. Includes dbm and ndbm
• GEDIT (L) - GTK+ based text editor
• GEMTOPBM (1) - convert a GEM .img file into a portable bitmap
• GENDIFF (1) - utility to aid in error-free diff file generation
• GENKSYMS (8) - generate symbol version information
• GETCONTEXT (2) - get or set the user context
• GETCWD (3) - Get current working directory
• GETDENTS (2) - get directory entries
• GETDIRENTRIES (3) - get directory entries in a filesystem independent format
• GETDOMAINNAME (2) - get/set domain name
• GETDTABLESIZE (2) - get descriptor table size
• GETENV (3) - get an environment variable
• GETFDS (3) - Get file descriptors in use by PVM.
• GETFILENAME (1) - Ask the user to name a file in a given format
• GETGID (2) - get group identity
• GETGRENT (3) - get group file entry
• GETGRNAM (3) - get group file entry
• GETGROUPS (2) - get/set list of supplementary group IDs
• GETHOSTBYNAME (3) - get network
• GETHOSTID (2) - get or set the unique identifier of the current host
• GETHOSTNAME (2) - get/set host name
• GETINST (3) - Returns the instance number in a group of a PVM process.
• GETITIMER (2) - get or set value of an interval timer
• GETKEYCODES (8) - print kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table
• GETLIST (1) - get a list from an NNTP server
• GETLOGIN (3) - get user name
• GETMNTENT (3) - get file system
• GETNETENT (3) - Get a standard IO File * handle from a channel. (Unix only)
• GETNODES (2) - Get array of LAM node identifiers.
• GETNTYPE (2) - getnodeid, getnodetype, getorigin, getncomp, getnotb,
• GETOPT (1) - parse command options (enhanced)
• GETOPT (3) - Parse command line options
• GETPAGESIZE (2) - get system page size
• GETPASS (3) - get a password
• GETPEERNAME (2) - get name of connected peer
• GETPID (2) - get process identification
• GETPRIORITY (2) - get/set program scheduling priority
• GETPROTOENT (3) - getprotoent, getprotobyname, getprotobynumber, setprotoent,
• GETPW (3) - Re-construct password line entry
• GETPWENT (3) - get password file entry
• GETPWNAM (3) - get password file entry
• GETRBUF (3) - Returns the message buffer identifier for the
• GETRENT (2) - getrent, getrentc, getroute, getroute2, getrtype
• GETRESUID (2) - get real, effective and saved user or group ID
• GETRLIMIT (2) - get/set resource limits and usage
• GETRPCENT (3) - get RPC entry
• GETRPCPORT (3) - get RPC port number
• GETS (3) - input of characters and strings
• GETS (N) - Read a line from a channel
• GETSBUF (3) - Returns the message buffer identifier for the
• GETSERVENT (3) - procedures for retrieving and replacing the standard channels
• GETSID (2) - get session ID
• GETSOCKNAME (2) - get socket name
• GETSOCKOPT (2) - get and set options on sockets
• GETTID (3) - Returns the tid of the process identified by a
• GETTIMEOFDAY (2) - get / set time
• GETTY (1) - sets terminal mode, speed, and line discipline
• GETTYDEFS (5) - speed and tty settings used by getty
• GETUID (2) - get user identity
• GETUSERSHELL (3) - get legal user shells
• GETUTENT (3) - access utmp file entries
• GETW (3) - input and output of words (ints)
• GETWCHAR (3) - read a wide character from standard input
• GET_KERNEL_SYMS (2) - retrieve exported kernel and module symbols
• GET_PRIORITY_MAX (2) - get static priority range
• GFTODVI (1) - make proof sheets from generic font files
• GFTOPK (1) - convert generic font files to packed font files
• GFTYPE (1) - translate a generic font file for humans to read
• GIF2TIFF (1) - create a
• GIFTOPNM (1) - convert a GIF file into a portable anymap
• GIT (1) - GNU Interactive Tools
• GITACTION (1) - GNU Interactive Tools - per file type action script
• GITKEYS (1) - GNU Interactive Tools - Display key sequence utility
• GITMOUNT (1) - GNU Interactive Tools - auto-mount script
• GITRGREP (1) - GNU Interactive Tools - recursive grep
• GITUNPACK (1) - GNU Interactive Tools - Unified archive unpacking
• GLIB (1) - config - script to get information about the installed version of GLib
• GLINT (8) - Graphical Linux Installation Tool for RPM based systems
• GLOB (3) - find pathnames matching a pattern, free memory from glob()
• GLOB (7) - Globbing pathnames
• GLOB (N) - Return names of files that match patterns
• GLOBAL (N) - Access global variables
• GL_ALLOCATECONTEXT (3) - allocate a graphics context
• GL_CIRCLE (3) - draw a circle
• GL_CLEARSCREEN (3) - clear the screen
• GL_COLORFONT (3) - change the color of a font
• GL_COMPILEBOXMASK (3) - compress a masked bitmap
• GL_COMPILEDBOXMASKSIZE (3) - compute the size of a compiled masked box
• GL_COPYBOX (3) - copy a rectangular screen area
• GL_COPYBOXFROMCONTEXT (3) - copy rectangular area from another context
• GL_COPYBOXTOCONTEXT (3) - copy a rectangular area to another context
• GL_COPYSCREEN (3) - copy the screen contents of contexts
• GL_DISABLECLIPPING (3) - disables clipping
• GL_ENABLECLIPPING (3) - enables clipping
• GL_ENABLEPAGEFLIPPING (3) - enables automatic page flipping
• GL_EXPANDFONT (3) - expand a packed pixel font
• GL_FILLBOX (3) - fill a rectangular area
• GL_FONT8X8 (3) - a packed 8x8 pixel font
• GL_FREECONTEXT (3) - free a virtual screen
• GL_GETBOX (3) - copy a rectangular pixmap from the screen to a buffer
• GL_GETCONTEXT (3) - get the current graphics contents.
• GL_GETPALETTECOLOR (3) - read the color palette
• GL_GETPIXEL (3) - return the color of a pixel
• GL_GETPIXELRGB (3) - store color components of a pixel
• GL_HLINE (3) - draw a horizontal line
• GL_LINE (3) - draw a line
• GL_PRINTF (3) - write formatted output in graphic mode
• GL_PUTBOX (3) - copy a pixmap to a rectangular area
• GL_PUTBOXMASK (3) - copy a masked pixmap to a rectangular area
• GL_PUTBOXMASKCOMPILED (3) - copy a compiled masked pixmap to a rectangular area
• GL_PUTBOXPART (3) - copy a partial pixmap to a rectangular area
• GL_RGBCOLOR (3) - return pixel value corresponding to an rgb color
• GL_SCALEBOX (3) - scale a pixmap
• GL_SETCLIPPINGWINDOW (3) - set the clipping window
• GL_SETCONTEXT (3) - set a previously saved context
• GL_SETCONTEXTVGA (3) - set the context to the physical screen
• GL_SETCONTEXTVGAVIRTUAL (3) - set the context to a virtual mode
• GL_SETCONTEXTVIRTUAL (3) - define a virtual context
• GL_SETCONTEXTWIDTH (3) - set the dimension of a context
• GL_SETDISPLAYSTART (3) - set the start of the screen are displayed
• GL_SETFONT (3) - set the text font to be used
• GL_SETFONTCOLORS (3) - set the font colors
• GL_SETPALETTECOLOR (3) - set the color palette
• GL_SETPIXEL (3) - draw a pixel
• GL_SETRGBPALETTE (3) - set a 256-color RGB palette
• GL_SETSCREENOFFSET (3) - set a memory offset for copyscreen
• GL_SETWRITEMODE (3) - set the font writemode flags
• GL_STRIANGLE (3) - draw a solid colored triangle
• GL_SWTRIANGLE (3) - draw a solid pixmap mapped on a triangle
• GL_TRIANGLE (3) - draw a triangle with interpolated colors
• GL_TRISETCOLORLOOKUP (3) - manages a color lookup table for shadowing
• GL_TRISETDRAWPOINT (3) - set a triangle drawing function
• GL_WRITE (3) - write a text string
• GL_WTRIANGLE (3) - draw a shadowed pixmap mapped on a triangle
• GNOME (1) - config - GNOME libraries and component information retrieval.
• GNP (1) - gnotepad+, a GTK-based notepad/text editor
• GNUCHESS (6) - Chess
• GO500 (8) - Local Gopher index search to X.500 search gateway
• GO500GW (8) - General Gopher to X.500 gateway for browsing and searching
• GOULDTOPPM (1) - convert Gould scanner file into a portable pixmap
• GPASSWD (1) - administer the /etc/group file
• GPERF (1) - generate a perfect hash function from a key set
• GPG (1) - compile pictures for troff or TeX
• GPM (-) - root - a default handler for gpm, used to draw menus on
• GPM (1) - a cut and paste utility and mouse server for virtual consoles
• GPM (8) - a cut and paste utility and mouse server for virtual consoles
• GPROF (1) - display call graph profile data
• GRAB (N) - Confine pointer and keyboard events to a window sub-tree
• GRABMODE (8) - .nf
• GRANT (L) - Grants access privilege to a user, a group or all users
• GREP (1) - print lines matching a pattern
• GREPHISTORY (1) - display file names from Usenet history file
• GRODVI (1) - convert groff output to TeX dvi format
• GROFF (1) - front end for the groff document formatting system
• GROFF_CHAR (7) - groff character names
• GROFF_FONT (5) - format of groff device and font description files
• GROFF_MAN (7) - .
• GROFF_ME (7) - troff macros for formatting papers
• GROFF_MM (7) - groff mm macros
• GROFF_MMSE (7) - svenska mm makro för groff
• GROFF_MS (7) - groff ms macros
• GROFF_MSAFER (7) - groff -msafer macros
• GROFF_OUT (5) - groff intermediate output format
• GROG (1) - guess options for groff command
• GROHTML (1) - html driver for groff
• GROLJ4 (1) - groff driver for HP Laserjet 4 family
• GROPS (1) - PostScript driver for groff
• GROTTY (1) - groff driver for typewriter-like devices
• GROUP (5) - user group file
• GROUPADD (8) - Create a new group
• GROUPDEL (8) - Delete a group
• GROUPMOD (8) - Modify a group
• GROUPS (1) - print the groups a user is in
• GRPCK (1) - verify integrity of group files
• GS (1) - Aladdin Ghostscript interpreter/previewer
• GS-HPDJ (1) - Ghostscript device driver for printers understanding PCL 3+
• GSFTOPK (1) - render a ghostscript font in TeX pk format
• GSIZE (3) - Returns the number of members presently in the named group.
• GTK (+) - config - script to get information about the installed version of GTK+
• GTT (1) - GTimeTracker - a time tracker
• GZEXE (1) - compress executable files in place
• GZIP (1) - compress or expand files

- H -

• H2PH (1) - draw circular patterns
• HALT (3) - Shuts down the entire PVM system.
• HALT (8) - stop the system.
• HBOOT (1) - Start LAM on the local node.
• HCC (1) - Compile LAM C/C++ programs.
• HD (4) - MFM/IDE hard disk devices
• HDPARM (8) - get/set hard disk parameters
• HEAD (1) - output the first part of files
• HEXAGONS (6) - Hexagons X widget
• HEXDUMP (1) - hexdump
• HF77 (1) - Compile LAM FORTRAN programs.
• HIER (7) - Description of the file system hierarchy
• HIPSTOPGM (1) - convert a HIPS file into a portable graymap
• HISTORY (5) - record of current and recently expired Usenet articles
• HISTORY (N) - Manipulate the history list
• HLFSD (8) - home-link file system daemon
• HOST (1) - host
• HOST.CONF (5) - resolver configuration file
• HOSTID (1) - print the numeric identifier for the current host
• HOSTNAME (1) - show or set the system's host name
• HOSTNAME (7) - hostname
• HOSTS.EQUIV (5) - list of hosts and users that are granted
• HOSTS.NNTP (5) - list of hosts that feed NNTP news
• HOSTSYNC (3) - Get time-of-day clock from PVM host.
• HOSTS_ACCESS (3) - access control library
• HOSTS_ACCESS (5) - format of host access control files
• HOSTS_OPTIONS (5) - host access control language extensions
• HPCDTOPPM (1) - convert a Photo-CD file into a portable pixmap
• HPFTODIT (1) - create font description files for use with groff -Tlj4
• HSEARCH (3) - hash table management
• HTDIGEST (1) - Create and update user authentication files
• HTPASSWD (1) - Create and update user authentication files
• HTTP (N) - Client-side implementation of the HTTP/1.0 protocol.
• HTTPD (8) - Apache hypertext transfer protocol server
• HYPOT (3) - Euclidean distance function

- I -

• I82365 (4) - Intel i82365sl PCMCIA controller driver
• IBCS (9) - loadable module to allow execution of other x86 Unix binaries
• IBMTR_CS (4) - IBM Token Ring PCMCIA device driver
• ICAL (1) - An X based Calendar Program
• ICMP (4) - Linux IPv4 ICMP kernel module.
• ICMP (7) - Linux IPv4 ICMP kernel module.
• ICONTOPBM (1) - convert a Sun icon into a portable bitmap
• ICONV (3) - perform character set conversion
• ICONV_CLOSE (3) - deallocate descriptor for character set conversion
• ICONV_OPEN (3) - allocate descriptor for character set conversion
• ID (1) - print real and effective UIDs and GIDs
• IDENT (1) - identify RCS keyword strings in files
• IDENTD (1) - TCP/IP IDENT protocol server
• IDENTIFY (1) - describe the format and characteristics of one or more image
• IDE_INFO (8) - IDE device description tool
• IDLE (2) - make process 0 idle
• IF (N) - Execute scripts conditionally
• IFCONFIG (8) - configure a network interface
• IFLASH2_MTD (4) - memory technology driver for Intel Series 2+ flash
• IFPORT (8) - select the transceiver type for a network interface
• IFUSER (8) - identify destinations routed to a particular network interface
• IGAWK (1) - gawk with include files
• ILBMTOPPM (1) - convert an ILBM file into a portable pixmap
• IMAGE (N) - Create and manipulate images
• IMAGEMAGICK (1) - ImageMagick is an X11 package for display and interactive
• IMGTOPPM (1) - convert an Img-whatnot file into a portable pixmap
• IMPORT (1) - capture some or all of an X server screen and save the image to
• IN.RDISC (8) - network router discovery daemon
• IN.XFINGERD (8) - Finger to LDAP/X.500 gateway daemon
• INC (1) - incorporate new mail
• INCOMING.CONF (5) - names and addresses that feed us news
• INCR (N) - Increment the value of a variable
• INDENT (1) - make inverted index for bibliographic databases
• INDEX (3) - locate character in string
• INDXBIB (1) - make inverted index for bibliographic databases
• INET (3) - inet_aton, inet_addr, inet_network, inet_ntoa, inet_makeaddr, inet_lnaof,
• INETD (8) - Internet servers database
• INEWS (1) - send a Usenet article to the local news server for distribution
• INFNAN (3) - deal with infinite or not-a-number (NaN) result
• INFO (1) - GNU's hypertext system
• INFO (N) - Return information about the state of the Tcl interpreter
• INIT (8) - process control initialization
• INITDB (1) - Create a new Postgres database installation
• INITGROUPS (3) - initialize the supplementary group access list
• INITLOCATION (1) - Create a secondary Postgres database storage area
• INITLOG (8) - log messages and events to the system logger
• INITRD (4) - boot loader initialized RAM disk
• INITSCRIPT (5) - script that executes inittab commands.
• INITSEND (3) - Clear default send buffer and specify message encoding.
• INITTAB (5) - format of the inittab file used by the sysv-compatible init
• INIT_MODULE (2) - initialize a loadable module entry
• INN.CONF (5) - configuration data for InterNetNews programs
• INNCHECK (8) - check inn configuration and database files.
• INNCONFVAL (1) - get an InterNetNews configuration parameter
• INND (8) - InterNetNews daemon
• INNDF (8) - Replacement for 'df | awk' in innwatch.ctl
• INNFEED (1) - multi-host, multi-connection, streaming NNTP feeder.
• INNFEED.CONF (5) - configuration file for innfeed
• INNLOG.PL (8) - summarize innd and nnrpd log files.
• INNREPORT (8) - summarize INN log files.
• INNSTAT (8) - print snapshot of INN system
• INNWATCH (8) - monitor innd.
• INNWATCH.CTL (5) - control Usenet supervision by innwatch
• INNXBATCH (8) - send xbatched Usenet articles to a remote NNTP server
• INNXMIT (8) - send Usenet articles to a remote NNTP server
• INSERT (3) - store data in pvmd database
• INSERT (L) - Inserts new rows into a table
• INSMOD (1) - install loadable kernel module
• INSMOD (8) - install loadable kernel module
• INSQUE (3) - insert/remove an item from a queue
• INSTALL (-) - Converts IETF agenda format to install-datebook format
• INSTALL (1) - copy files and set attributes
• INSTALLIT (1) - file/directory installation tool
• INTERP (N) - Create and manipulate Tcl interpreters
• INTRO (1) - Introduction to user commands
• INTRO (2) - Introduction to system calls
• INTRO (3) - Introduction to library functions
• INTRO (4) - Introduction to special files
• INTRO (5) - Introduction to file formats
• INTRO (6) - Introduction to games
• INTRO (7) - Introduction to conventions and miscellany section
• INTRO (8) - Introduction to administration and privileged commands
• INTROC (2) - introduction to LAM C programming functions
• INTROF (2) - introduction to LAM Fortran programming routines
• INTROU (1) - introduction to LAM user interface commands
• IOCTL (2) - control device
• IOPERM (2) - set port input/output permissions
• IOPL (2) - change I/O privilege level
• IP (4) - Linux IPv4 protocol implementation
• IP (7) - Linux IPv4 protocol implementation
• IPC (2) - System V IPC system calls
• IPC (5) - System V interprocess communication mechanisms
• IPCALC (1) - perform simple manipulation of IP addresses
• IPCCLEAN (1) - Clean up shared memory and semaphores from aborted backends
• IPCHAINS (-) - restore - restore IP firewall chains from stdin
• IPCHAINS (8) - IP firewall administration
• IPCRM (8) - provide information on ipc facilities
• IPCS (8) - provide information on ipc facilities
• IPFW (4) - IP firewall
• IPFWADM (-) - wrapper - IP firewall administration
• IPFWADM (8) - IP firewall and accounting administration
• IPVSADM (8) - administer the routing table on a Linux Virtual Server
• IPX_CMD (8) - bridge between Novell's SCMD driver and local IPX network
• IPX_CONFIGURE (8) - query/configure IPX behavior
• IPX_INTERFACE (8) - add, delete, or display an IPX interface
• IPX_INTERNAL_NET (8) - add or delete the IPX internal network
• IPX_ROUTE (8) - add or delete IPX route
• IRS.CONF (5) - irs.conf
• ISALPHA (3) - isalnum, isalpha, isascii, isblank, iscntrl, isdigit, isgraph, islower,
• ISAPNP (8) - Configure ISA Plug-and-Play devices.
• ISAPNP.CONF (5) - File format used by isapnp.
• ISATTY (3) - does this descriptor refer to a terminal
• ISINF (3) - test for infinity or not-a-number (NaN)
• ISO_8859 (-) - 1 - the ISO 8859-1 character set encoded in octal, decimal,
• ISPELL (1) - Interactive
• ISPELL (4) - format of ispell dictionaries and affix files
• ISPELL (5) - format of ispell dictionaries and affix files
• ISSUE (5) - pre-login message and identification file
• ISSUE.NET (5) - issue.net
• ISWALNUM (3) - test for alphanumeric wide character
• ISWALPHA (3) - test for alphabetic wide character
• ISWBLANK (3) - test for whitespace wide character
• ISWCNTRL (3) - test for control wide character
• ISWCTYPE (3) - wide character classification
• ISWDIGIT (3) - test for decimal digit wide character
• ISWGRAPH (3) - test for graphic wide character
• ISWLOWER (3) - test for lowercase wide character
• ISWPRINT (3) - test for printing wide character
• ISWPUNCT (3) - test for punctuation or symbolic wide character
• ISWSPACE (3) - test for whitespace wide character
• ISWUPPER (3) - test for uppercase wide character
• ISWXDIGIT (3) - test for hexadecimal digit wide character

- J -

• J0 (3) - Bessel functions
• JED (1) - programmers editor
• JOE (1) - Joe's Own Editor
• JOIN (1) - join lines of two files on a common field
• JOIN (N) - Create a string by joining together list elements
• JOINGROUP (3) - Enrolls the calling process in a named group.
• JOYSTICK_CLOSE (3) - close a joystick
• JOYSTICK_GETAXIS (3) - query the current state of a joystick.
• JOYSTICK_GETNUMAXES (3) - query the capabilities of a joystick
• JOYSTICK_INIT (3) - open a joystick
• JOYSTICK_SETHANDLER (3) - set the joystick event handler.
• JOYSTICK_UPDATE (3) - query joysticks for status changes
• JOYTEST (3) - test the svgalib joystick package in text mode
• JPEGTRAN (1) - lossless transformation of JPEG files

- K -

• KALEIDESCPE (1) - rotating line segments
• KATTACH (2) - Attach/detach a process to/from the local LAM daemon.
• KBDCONFIG (8) - simple interface for configuring system keyboard
• KBDRATE (8) - reset the keyboard repeat rate and delay time
• KBD\ (-) - compat - kbd-compatibility wrapper scripts for Linux Console Tools.
• KBD_MODE (1) - report or set the keyboard mode
• KCREATE (2) - Create a LAM process from an executable program.
• KDOC (1) - program to report major version of kernel
• KDOOM (2) - Deliver a signal to a LAM process.
• KENTER (2) - Enter process into LAM session.
• KERNELD (8) - perform kernel action in user space (such as on-demand loading of modules)
• KEXIT (2) - Terminate LAM process.
• KEYBOARD_CLEARSTATE (3) - reset the state of all keys when in raw keyboard mode
• KEYBOARD_CLOSE (3) - return the keyboard to normal operation from raw mode
• KEYBOARD_GETSTATE (3) - get a pointer to a buffer holding the state of all keys in raw keyboard mode
• KEYBOARD_INIT (3) - initialize the keyboard to raw mode
• KEYBOARD_KEYPRESSED (3) - check if a key is pressed when in raw keyboard mode
• KEYBOARD_SETEVENTHANDLER (3) - define an event handler for keyboard events in raw mode
• KEYBOARD_TRANSLATEKEYS (3) - modify scancode mappings in raw keyboard mode
• KEYBOARD_UPDATE (3) - process raw keyboard events
• KEYMAPS (5) - keyboard table descriptions for loadkeys and dumpkeys
• KEYTABLES (5) - keyboard table descriptions for loadkeys and dumpkeys
• KEYTEST (6) - tests the svgalib raw keyboard functions
• KIBITZ (1) - allow two people to interact with one shell
• KILL (1) - terminate a process
• KILL (2) - send signal to a process
• KILL (3) - Terminates a specified PVM process.
• KILLALL (1) - kill processes by name
• KILLALL5 (8) - - send a signal to all processes.
• KILLPG (2) - send signal to a process group
• KILLPG (3) - send signal to all members of a process group.
• KINIT (2) - Initialize a LAM process.
• KLOGD (8) - kernel log daemon.
• KPSESTAT (1) - compute octal mode from mode of existing file
• KPSEWHICH (1) - standalone path lookup and and expansion for kpathsea
• KSEND (2) - Send and receive local node LAM messages.
• KSH (1) - Public domain Korn shell
• KSTATE (2) - Get synchronization status of a LAM process.
• KSYMOOPS (8) - a utility to decode Linux kernel Oops
• KSYMS (1) - display exported kernel symbols.
• KSYMS (8) - display exported kernel symbols.
• KUDZU (1) - detects and configures new and/or changed hardware on a system

- L -

• LABEL (N) - Create and manipulate label widgets
• LABS (3) - computes the absolute value of a long integer.
• LAM (-) - helpfile - LAM help message file
• LAMBOOT (1) - Start a LAM multicomputer.
• LAMCLEAN (1) - Attempt to clean entire LAM system.
• LAMEXEC (1) - Run non-MPI programs on LAM nodes.
• LAMF_RFOPEN (2) - Open or close a remote file. (LAM)
• LAMF_RFREAD (2) - Read/write data from/to a remote file. (LAM)
• LAMGROW (1) - Extend a LAM multicomputer.
• LAMSHRINK (1) - Shrink a LAM multicomputer.
• LAMTRACE (1) - Unload LAM trace data.
• LAM_KSIGBLOCK (2) - lam_ksigblock, lam_ksigsetmask, lam_ksigretry, lam_ksigsetretry, lam_kpause
• LAM_KSIGNAL (2) - Specify a signal handler for a LAM signal.
• LAM_RFPOSIX (2) - LAM POSIX-like remote file service
• LAM_RFRMFD (2) - Control LAM specific file daemon services.
• LAM_RFSTATE (2) - Report status of remote LAM file descriptors.
• LAM_RTRGET (2) - Unload LAM trace data.
• LAM_RTRSTORE (2) - Store LAM trace data.
• LAM_RTRSWEEP (2) - Remove LAM trace data.
• LAPPEND (N) - Append list elements onto a variable
• LASTCOMM (1) - print out information about previously executed commands.
• LASTLOG (8) - examine lastlog file
• LATEX (1) - structured text formatting and typesetting
• LD (1) - the GNU linker
• LD.SO (8) - a.out dynamic linker/loader
• LD86 (1) - Linker for as86(1)
• LDAP.CONF (5) - ldap configuration file
• LDAPD (8) - LDAP X.500 Protocol Daemon
• LDAPDELETE (1) - ldap delete entry tool
• LDAPFILTER.CONF (5) - configuration file for LDAP get filter routines
• LDAPFRIENDLY (5) - data file for LDAP friendly routines
• LDAPMODIFY (1) - ldap modify entry and ldap add entry tools
• LDAPMODRDN (1) - ldap modify entry RDN tool
• LDAPPASSWD (1) - change the password of an LDAP entry
• LDAPSEARCH (1) - ldap search tool
• LDAPSEARCHPREFS.CONF (5) - configuration file for LDAP search preference routines
• LDAPTEMPLATES.CONF (5) - configuration file for LDAP display template routines
• LDBMCAT (8) - LDBM to LDIF database format conversion utility
• LDCONFIG (8) - determine run-time link bindings
• LDD (1) - print shared library dependencies
• LDEXP (3) - multiply floating-point number by integral power of 2
• LDIF (5) - LDAP Data Interchange Format
• LDIF (8) - convert arbitrary data to LDIF format
• LDIF2LDBM (8) - LDIF to LDBM database format conversion utilities
• LDIV (3) - computes the quotient and remainder of long integer division.
• LESS (1) - opposite of more
• LESSKEY (1) - specify key bindings for less
• LGAMMA (3) - log gamma function
• LHA (N) - config - script to get information about the installed version of
• LIBEXPECT (3) - programmed dialogue with interactive programs - C functions
• LIBMPI (3) - LAM MPI implementation
• LIBPBM (3) - functions to support portable bitmap programs
• LIBPGM (3) - functions to support portable graymap programs
• LIBPNG (3) - Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Reference Library 1.0.3 - January 14, 1999
• LIBPNGPF (3) - Portable Network Graphics (PNG) Reference Library 1.0.3 - January 14, 1999
• LIBPNM (3) - functions to support portable anymap programs
• LIBPPM (3) - functions to support portable pixmap programs
• LIBPVM (3) - PVM C and Fortran programming libraries
• LIBRARY (N) - standard library of Tcl procedures
• LIBTSTDIO (3) - flexible LAM standard I/O package
• LIBVGA.CONFIG (5) - the svgalib configuration file
• LILO (8) - install boot loader
• LILO.CONF (5) - configuration file for lilo
• LINDEX (N) - Retrieve an element from a list
• LINK (2) - make a new name for a file
• LINSERT (N) - Insert elements into a list
• LISPMTOPGM (1) - convert a Lisp Machine bitmap file into pgm format
• LIST (N) - Create a list
• LISTALIAS (1) - list user and system aliases
• LISTBOX (N) - Create and manipulate listbox widgets
• LISTEN (2) - listen for connections on a socket
• LISTEN (L) - Listen for a response on a notify condition
• LKBIB (1) - search bibliographic databases
• LLENGTH (N) - Count the number of elements in a list
• LLSEEK (2) - reposition read/write file offset
• LMHOSTS (5) - Describes a locale definition file
• LMORPH (1) - morphing lines
• LN (1) - make links between files
• LOAD (L) - Dynamically loads an object file
• LOAD (N) - Load machine code and initialize new commands.
• LOADGO (1) - Run programs on LAM nodes.
• LOADKEYS (1) - load keyboard translation tables
• LOADUNIMAP (8) - load the kernel unicode-to-font mapping table
• LOCALE (7) - Description of multi-language support
• LOCALECONV (3) - get numeric formatting information
• LOCATEDB (5) - front-compressed file name database
• LOCK (L) - Explicit lock of a table inside a transaction
• LOCKF (3) - apply, test or remove a POSIX lock on an open file
• LOCKFILE (1) - conditional semaphore-file creator
• LOGGER (1) - logger
• LOGIN (1) - sign on
• LOGIN (5) - Login configuration
• LOGNAME (1) - print user\'s login name
• LOGRESOLVE (8) - resolve hostnames for IP-adresses in Apache logfiles
• LOGROTATE (8) - rotates, compresses, and mails system logs
• LONGJMP (3) - non-local jump to a saved stack context
• LOOK (1) - look
• LOOKBIB (1) - search bibliographic databases
• LOOKUP (3) - retrieve data from pvmd database
• LOSETUP (8) - set up and control loop devices
• LOWER (N) - Change a window's position in the stacking order
• LP (4) - line printer devices
• LPATTACH (2) - Attach, detach a LAM process from remote
• LPC (8) - lpc
• LPD (8) - lpd
• LPQ (1) - lpq
• LPR (1) - lpr
• LPRM (1) - lprm
• LPTEST (1) - lptest
• LRANGE (N) - Return one or more adjacent elements from a list
• LREPLACE (N) - Replace elements in a list with new elements
• LS (1) - list directory contents
• LSATTR (1) - list file attributes on a Linux second extended file system
• LSDEV (8) - display information about installed hardware
• LSEARCH (3) - linear search of an array.
• LSEARCH (N) - See if a list contains a particular element
• LSEEK (2) - reposition read/write file offset
• LSMOD (1) - list loaded modules.
• LSMOD (8) - list loaded modules.
• LSOF (8) - list open files
• LSORT (N) - Sort the elements of a list
• LSPCI (8) - list all PCI devices
• LSPNP (8) - list Plug and Play BIOS device nodes and resources
• LVGROUP (3) - Unenrolls the calling process from a named group.
• LVS (8) - failover services daemon to control the Red Hat clustering services.
• LVS.CF (5) - configuration file for lvs
• LWP (-) - a general purpose distributed information browser for the World Wide Web

- M -

• MACH32INFO (1) - read out configuration information of a Mach32
• MACPTOPBM (1) - convert a MacPaint file into a portable bitmap
• MAG (1) - computes fontsizes and magsteps
• MAGIC (4) - file command's magic number file
• MAIL (1) - mail
• MAIL500 (8) - X.500 capable mailer
• MAILADDR (7) - mail addressing description
• MAILCAP (4) - metamail capabilities file
• MAILPOST (1) - feed an email message into a news group
• MAILQ (1) - mailq
• MAILSTATS (1) - mailstats
• MAILTO (-) - hebrew - Run the mailto program to send Hebrew/English mail
• MAILTO (1) - Simple mutlimedia mail sending program
• MAKE (-) - ssh-known-hosts - make ssh_known_hosts file from DNS data
• MAKE (1) - GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs
• MAKEACTIVE (8) - tool to recover Usenet active file.
• MAKEDBM (8) - create or dump a ypserv database file
• MAKEDEV (8) - create devices
• MAKEHISTORY (8) - tools to recover Usenet history database.
• MAKEINDEX (1) - a general purpose, formatter-independent index processor
• MAKEKDEDOC (1) - typeset labels in MetaPost pictures with TeX or Troff
• MAKEMAP (8) - makemap
• MAKE_SMBCODEPAGE (1) - format and display the on-line manual pages
• MALLOC (3) - Allocate and free dynamic memory
• MAN (1) - format and display the on-line manual pages
• MAN (7) - macros to format man pages
• MAN.CONF (5) - configuration data for man
• MAN.CONFIG (5) - configuration data for man
• MAN2HTML (1) - format a manual page in html
• MAPSCRN (8) - load screen output mapping table
• MARK (1) - manipulate message sequences
• MASTERBALL (6) - Masterball X widget
• MATTRIB (1) - change MSDOS file attribute flags
• MAWK (1) - pattern scanning and text processing language
• MBADBLOCKS (1) - tests a floppy disk, and marks the bad blocks in the FAT
• MBLEN (3) - determine number of bytes in next multibyte character
• MBRLEN (3) - determine number of bytes in next multibyte character
• MBRTOWC (3) - convert a multibyte sequence to a wide character
• MBSINIT (3) - test for initial shift state
• MBSNRTOWCS (3) - convert a multibyte string to a wide character string
• MBSRTOWCS (3) - convert a multibyte string to a wide character string
• MBSTOWCS (3) - convert a multibyte string to a wide character string
• MBTOWC (3) - convert a multibyte sequence to a wide character
• MB_CUR_MAX (3) - maximum length of a multibyte character in the current locale
• MB_LEN_MAX (3) - maximum multibyte length of a character across all locales
• MC (1) - Visual shell for Unix-like systems.
• MCAST (3) - Multicasts the data in the active message buffer
• MCAT (1) - dump raw disk image
• MCD (1) - change MSDOS directory
• MCEDIT (1) - Full featured terminal text editor for Unix-like systems.
• MCOOKIE (1) - generate magic cookies for xauth
• MCOPY (1) - copy MSDOS files to/from Unix
• MCSERV (8) - Midnight Commander file server.
• MD5SUM (1) - compute and check MD5 message digest
• MDEL (1) - delete an MSDOS file
• MDELTREE (1) - '\
• MDIR (1) - display an MSDOS directory
• MDOC (7) - mdoc
• MDOC.SAMPLES (7) - mdoc.samples
• MDU (1) - display the amount of space occupied by an MSDOS directory
• MEM (4) - system memory, kernel memory and system ports
• MEMCCPY (3) - copy memory area
• MEMCHR (3) - scan memory for a character
• MEMCMP (3) - compare memory areas
• MEMCPY (3) - copy memory area
• MEMFROB (3) - frobnicate (encrypt) a memory area
• MEMMEM (3) - locate a substring
• MEMMOVE (3) - copy memory area
• MEMORY_CS (4) - CardBus memory driver
• MEMSET (3) - fill memory with a constant byte
• MENU (N) - Create and manipulate menu widgets
• MENUBUTTON (N) - Create and manipulate menubutton widgets
• MERGE (1) - three-way file merge
• MESG (1) - control write access to your terminal
• MESSAGE (N) - Create and manipulate message widgets
• MESSAGES (1) - quick count of messages in mailbox or folder
• METAMAIL (1) - infrastructure for mailcap-based multimedia mail handling
• METASEND (1) - Crude interface for sending non-text mail
• MEV (1) - a program to report mouse events
• MF (1) - Metafont, a language for font and logo design
• MFORMAT (1) - add an MSDOS filesystem to a low-level formatted floppy disk
• MFT (1) - translate Metafont code to TeX code for prettyprinting
• MGRTOPBM (1) - convert a MGR bitmap into a portable bitmap
• MH (-) - chart - Chart of nmh Commands
• MH (1) - Message Handler
• MHBUILD (1) - translate MIME composition draft
• MHL (1) - produce formatted listings of nmh messages
• MHLIST (1) - list information about MIME messages
• MHMAIL (1) - send or read mail
• MHN (1) - display/list/store/cache MIME messages
• MHOOK (1) - MH receive-mail hooks
• MHPARAM (1) - print nmh profile components
• MHPATH (1) - print full pathnames of nmh messages and folders
• MHSHOW (1) - display MIME messages
• MHSTORE (1) - store contents of MIME messages into files
• MIFF (5) - Magick Image File Format is a platform-independent format for
• MIKMOD (1) - play soundtracker etc. modules on a Unix machine.
• MIME (1) - Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions
• MIMENCODE (1) - Translate to and from mail-oriented encoding formats
• MINGETTY (8) - minimal getty for consoles
• MINICOM (1) - friendly serial communication program
• MJOYTEST (3) - test the svgalib joystick package in graphics mode
• MK (-) - amd-map
• MKBUF (3) - Creates a new message buffer.
• MKDIR (1) - make directories
• MKDIR (2) - create a directory
• MKDOSFS (8) - mkdosfs
• MKE2FS (8) - create a Linux second extended file system
• MKFATIMAGE16 (1) - generate a virtual drive image suitable for DOSEMU
• MKFIFO (1) - make FIFOs (named pipes)
• MKFIFO (3) - make a FIFO special file (a named pipe)
• MKFS (8) - build a Linux file system
• MKFS.MINIX (8) - make a Linux MINIX filesystem
• MKINITRD (8) - creates initial ramdisk images for preloading modules
• MKLOST (+) - create a lost+found directory on a mounted Linux
• MKMANIFEST (1) - '\
• MKNETID (8) - generate data for netid map
• MKNOD (1) - make block or character special files
• MKNOD (2) - create a directory or special or ordinary file
• MKPASSWD (1) - generate new password, optionally apply it to a user
• MKPV (8) - creates PV
• MKRAID (8) - initializes/upgrades RAID device arrays
• MKSTEMP (3) - create a unique temporary file
• MKSWAP (8) - set up a Linux swap area
• MKTEMP (1) - mktemp
• MKTEMP (3) - make a unique temporary file name
• MKTEXLSR (1) - create ls-R databases
• MKTEXMF (1) - create a Metafont source file
• MKTEXPK (1) - create a PK file for a font
• MKTEXTFM (1) - create a TFM file for a font
• MLABEL (1) - make an MSDOS volume label
• MLOCK (2) - disable paging for some parts of memory
• MLOCKALL (2) - disable paging for calling process
• MMAP (2) - map or unmap files or devices into memory
• MMD (1) - make an MSDOS subdirectory
• MMOUNT (1) - mount an MSDOS disk
• MMOVE (1) - move or rename an MSDOS file or subdirectory
• MOC (1) - generate Qt meta object support code
• MOD (-) - active - batch processing of ctlinnd newgroup/rmgroup/changegroup
• MODERATORS (5) - submission addresses for moderated newsgroups
• MODF (3) - extract signed integral and fractional values from floating-point
• MODIFY_LDT (2) - get or set ldt
• MODINFO (1) - display information about a kernel module
• MODINFO (8) - display information about a kernel module
• MODPROBE (8) - high level handling of loadable modules
• MODULES (2) - get_kernel_syms, create_module, init_module, delete_module
• MODULES.CONF (5) - configuration file for loading kernel modules
• MOGRIFY (1) - transform an image or sequence of images
• MONTAGE (1) - creates a composite image by combining several separate images
• MORE (1) - more
• MOTD (5) - message of the day
• MOTD.NEWS (5) - motd.news
• MOUNT (2) - mount and unmount filesystems.
• MOUNT (8) - mount a file system
• MOUSE (4) - serial mouse interface
• MOUSECONFIG (8) - configure mouse for use under Linux
• MOUSETEST (6) - tests the svgalib mouse driver
• MOUSE_CLOSE (3) - explicitly close a mouse
• MOUSE_GETPOSITION_6D (3) - provide an interface to 3d mice
• MOUSE_GETX (3) - query the mouse state
• MOUSE_INIT (3) - specifically initialize a mouse
• MOUSE_SETEVENTHANDLER (3) - set a mouse event handler
• MOUSE_SETPOSITION (3) - set the current mouse position
• MOUSE_SETSCALE (3) - sets a mouse scale factor
• MOUSE_SETWRAP (3) - set what happens at the mouse boundaries
• MOUSE_SETXRANGE (3) - define the boundaries for the mouse cursor
• MOUSE_UPDATE (3) - updates the mouse state
• MOUSE_WAITFORUPDATE (3) - wait for an mouse update
• MOVE (L) - Moves cursor position
• MPARTITION (1) - partition an MSDOS hard disk
• MPG123 (1) - play audio MPEG 1.0/2.0 file (layers 1, 2 and 3)
• MPIL_COMM_ID (2) - Get useful LAM information from
• MPIL_SIGNAL (2) - Signal MPI processes under LAM.
• MPIL_SPAWN (2) - Spawn MPI processes under LAM.
• MPIL_TRACE_ON (2) - Start and stop LAM/MPI application tracing.
• MPIMSG (1) - Monitor MPI message buffers under LAM.
• MPIO_REQUEST_C2F (3) - Translates a C I/O-request handle to a Fortran I/O-request handle
• MPIO_REQUEST_F2C (3) - Translates a Fortran I/O-request handle to a C I/O-request handle
• MPIO_TEST (3) - Test the completion of a nonblocking read or write
• MPIO_WAIT (3) - Waits for the completion of a nonblocking read or write
• MPIRUN (1) - Run MPI programs on LAM nodes.
• MPITASK (1) - Monitor MPI processes under LAM.
• MPI_FILE_C2F (3) - Translates a C file handle to a Fortran file handle
• MPI_FILE_CLOSE (3) - Closes a file
• MPI_FILE_DELETE (3) - Deletes a file
• MPI_FILE_F2C (3) - Translates a Fortran file handle to a C file handle
• MPI_FILE_GET_AMODE (3) - Returns the file access mode
• MPI_FILE_GET_ATOMICITY (3) - Returns the atomicity mode
• MPI_FILE_GET_BYTE_OFFSET (3) - Returns the absolute byte position in the file corresponding to
• MPI_FILE_GET_GROUP (3) - Returns the group of processes that opened the file
• MPI_FILE_GET_INFO (3) - Returns the hints for a file that are actually being used by MPI
• MPI_FILE_GET_POSITION (3) - Returns the current position of the individual file pointer in etype units relative to the current view
• MPI_FILE_GET_SIZE (3) - Returns the file size
• MPI_FILE_GET_TYPE_EXTENT (3) - Returns the extent of datatype in the file
• MPI_FILE_GET_VIEW (3) - Returns the file view
• MPI_FILE_IREAD (3) - Nonblocking read using individual file pointer
• MPI_FILE_IREAD_AT (3) - Nonblocking read using explict offset
• MPI_FILE_IWRITE (3) - Nonblocking write using individual file pointer
• MPI_FILE_IWRITE_AT (3) - Nonblocking write using explict offset
• MPI_FILE_OPEN (3) - Opens a file
• MPI_FILE_PREALLOCATE (3) - Preallocates storage space for a file
• MPI_FILE_READ (3) - Read using individual file pointer
• MPI_FILE_READ_ALL (3) - Collective read using individual file pointer
• MPI_FILE_READ_AT (3) - Read using explict offset
• MPI_FILE_READ_AT_ALL (3) - Collective read using explict offset
• MPI_FILE_SEEK (3) - Updates the individual file pointer
• MPI_FILE_SET_ATOMICITY (3) - Sets the atomicity mode
• MPI_FILE_SET_INFO (3) - Sets new values for the hints associated with a file
• MPI_FILE_SET_SIZE (3) - Sets the file size
• MPI_FILE_SET_VIEW (3) - Sets the file view
• MPI_FILE_SYNC (3) - Causes all previous writes to be transferred to the storage device
• MPI_FILE_WRITE (3) - Write using individual file pointer
• MPI_FILE_WRITE_ALL (3) - Collective write using individual file pointer
• MPI_FILE_WRITE_AT (3) - Write using explict offset
• MPI_FILE_WRITE_AT_ALL (3) - Collective write using explict offset
• MPI_INFO_C2F (3) - Translates a C info handle to a Fortran info handle
• MPI_INFO_CREATE (3) - Creates a new info object
• MPI_INFO_DELETE (3) - Deletes a (key,value) pair from info
• MPI_INFO_DUP (3) - Returns a duplicate of the info object
• MPI_INFO_F2C (3) - Translates a Fortran info handle to a C info handle
• MPI_INFO_FREE (3) - Frees an info object
• MPI_INFO_GET (3) - Retrieves the value associated with a key
• MPI_INFO_GET_NKEYS (3) - Returns the number of currently defined keys in info
• MPI_INFO_GET_NTHKEY (3) - Returns the nth defined key in info
• MPI_INFO_GET_VALUELEN (3) - Retrieves the length of the value associated with a key
• MPI_INFO_SET (3) - Adds a (key,value) pair to info
• MPI_SPAWN (2) - Spawn MPI processes under LAM.
• MPI_TYPE_CREATE_DARRAY (3) - Creates a datatype corresponding to a distributed, multidimensional array
• MPI_TYPE_CREATE_SUBARRAY (3) - Creates a datatype describing a subarray of a multidimensional array
• MPOOL (3) - shared memory buffer pool
• MPOST (1) - MetaPost, a system for drawing pictures
• MPROTECT (2) - control allowable accesses to a region of memory
• MPTO (1) - extract labels in MetaPost pictures for typesetting
• MRD (1) - remove an MSDOS subdirectory
• MREAD (1) - '\
• MREMAP (2) - re-map a virtual memory address
• MREN (1) - rename an existing MSDOS file
• MSAFER (7) - groff -msafer macros
• MSGCHK (1) - check for messages
• MSGCTL (2) - message control operations
• MSGGET (2) - get a message queue identifier
• MSGOP (2) - message operations
• MSH (1) - nmh shell (and BBoard reader)
• MSHOWFAT (1) - '\
• MSTAT (3) - Returns the status of a host in the virtual machine.
• MSYNC (2) - synchronize a file with a memory map
• MT (1) - control magnetic tape drive operation
• MTEST (1) - tests the mtools configuration files
• MTOOLS.1 (3) - utilities to access DOS disks in Unix.
• MTOOLSTEST (1) - tests and displays the configuration
• MTVTOPPM (1) - convert output from the MTV or PRT ray tracers into a portable pixmap
• MTYPE (1) - display contents of an MSDOS file
• MUNLOCK (2) - reenable paging for some parts of memory
• MUNLOCKALL (2) - reenable paging for calling process
• MUTT (1) - .PP
• MUTTRC (5) - .PP
• MV (1) - move (rename) files
• MWRITE (1) - low level write (copy) a Unix file to MSDOS
• MYTID (3) - Returns the tid of the calling process.
• MZIP (1) - change protection mode and eject disk on Zip/Jaz drive

- N -

• NAMED (-) - bootconf
• NAMED (8) - named
• NAMED.CONF (5) - named.conf
• NAMED.RELOAD (8) - cause the name server to synchronize its database
• NAMED.RESTART (8) - stop and restart the name server
• NAMEI (1) - follow a pathname until a terminal point is found
• NAMESPACE (N) - create and manipulate contexts for commands and variables
• NANNY (8) - tool to monitor status of services in a cluster
• NANOSLEEP (2) - pause execution for a specified time
• NCFTP (1) - Browser program for the File Transfer Protocol
• NCFTPBATCH (1) - Batch FTP job processor daemon
• NCFTPGET (1) - Internet file transfer program for scripts
• NCFTPLS (1) - Internet file transfer program for scripts
• NCFTPPUT (1) - Internet file transfer program for scripts
• NCOPY (1) - NetWare file copy
• NCPMOUNT (8) - mount volume(s) from a specified NetWare fileserver.
• NCPUMOUNT (8) - unmount a NetWare filesystem mounted with ncpmount.
• NDC (8) - ndc
• NETDEVICE (4) - Low level access to Linux network devices.
• NETDEVICE (7) - Low level access to Linux network devices.
• NETGROUP (5) - specify network groups
• NETLINK (3) - Netlink macros
• NETLINK (4) - Communication between kernel and user.
• NETLINK (7) - Communication between kernel and user.
• NETSTAT (8) - Display network connections, routing tables, interface statistics, masquerade connections, netlink messages, and multicast memberships
• NETWAVE_CS (4) - Xircom Creditcard Netwave device driver
• NEWALIAS (1) - install new elm aliases for user and/or system
• NEWALIASES (1) - newaliases
• NEWCTIME (3) - convert date and time to ASCII
• NEWER (1) - compare file modification times
• NEWGRP (1) - log in to a new group
• NEWMAIL (1) - programs to asynchronously notify of new mail
• NEWS (-) - tools to recover Usenet databases
• NEWS.DAILY (8) - do regular Usenet system administration
• NEWS2MAIL (8) - a channel script to gateway news into email.
• NEWSETUP (1) - a program to set up a .newsrc file
• NEWSFEEDS (5) - determine where Usenet articles get sent
• NEWSGROUPS (1) - a program to list unsubscribed newsgroups.
• NEWSLOG (5) - description of Usenet log files
• NEWSLOG (8) - scanlogs, writelog, innstat, tally.unwanted, tally.control, innlog.pl
• NEWSREQUEUE (8) - tool to rewrite batchfiles.
• NEWTZSET (3) - initialize time conversion information
• NEWUSERS (8) - update and create new users in batch
• NEXT (1) - show the next message
• NFS (5) - nfs fstab format and options
• NFSSERVCTL (2) - syscall interface to kernel nfs daemon
• NFSSTAT (8) - print NFS statistics
• NICE (1) - run a program with modified scheduling priority
• NICE (2) - change process priority
• NICKNAMES (5) - nickname translation table for NIS maps
• NL (1) - number lines of files
• NLMCONV (1) - converts object code into an NLM
• NM (1) - list symbols from object files.
• NMBD (8) - NNTP server for on-campus hosts
• NMBLOOKUP (1) - new MH message system
• NNRP.ACCESS (5) - access file for NNTP news readers.
• NNRPD.TRACK (5) - file to specify hosts to be tracked by nnrpd.
• NNTPGET (1) - get Usenet articles from a remote NNTP server
• NNTPSEND (8) - send Usenet articles to remote site
• NNTPSEND.CTL (5) - list of sites to feed via nntpsend
• NOHUP (1) - run a command immune to hangups, with output to a non-tty
• NOLOGIN (5) - prevent non-root users from logging into the system
• NOTIFIER (3) - the event queue and notifier interfaces
• NOTIFY (3) - Request notification of PVM event such as host failure.
• NOTIFY (L) - Signals all frontends and backends listening on a notify condition
• NPRINT (1) - NetWare print client
• NPROBE (2) - Report if a LAM bufferd network message is ready to be received.
• NRECV (3) - Non-blocking receive.
• NROFF (1) - emulate nroff command with groff
• NSEND (1) - Send messages to users or groups
• NSEND (2) - Send and receive LAM network
• NSGMLS (1) - a validating SGML parser
• NSLOOKUP (8) - nslookup
• NSSWITCH.CONF (5) - System Databases and Name Service Switch configuration file
• NSTAT (1) - print network statistics
• NSUPDATE (8) - nsupdate
• NTSYSV (8) - simple interface for configuring runlevels
• NULL (4) - data sink
• NWAUTH (1) - Verify username/password
• NWBOCREATE (8) - Create a NetWare Bindery Object
• NWBOLS (1) - List NetWare Bindery Objects
• NWBOPROPS (1) - List properies of a NetWare Bindery Object
• NWBORM (8) - Remove a NetWare Bindery Object
• NWBPADD (8) - Set the value of a NetWare Bindery Property
• NWBPCREATE (8) - Create a NetWare Bindery Propery
• NWBPRM (8) - Remove a NetWare Bindery Propery
• NWBPSET (1) - Create a bindery property or set its value
• NWBPVALUES (8) - Print a NetWare Bindery Propery's contents
• NWCLIENT (5) - configuration file for NWClient program suite
• NWDIR (1) - Lists files in directory
• NWFSCTRL (1) - Perform server command
• NWFSINFO (1) - Print some information about the file server
• NWFSTIME (1) - Display / Set a NetWare server's date and time
• NWGRANT (8) - Add Trustee Rights to a directory
• NWMSG (8) - Deliver NetWare user broadcast messages
• NWPASSWD (1) - Change a user's password
• NWPURGE (1) - Permanently delete previously erased files
• NWREVOKE (8) - Revoke a Trustee Right from a directory
• NWRIGHTS (1) - Show effective rights for file or directory
• NWSFIND (1) - Find a NetWare Server
• NWTRUSTEE (8) - List an object's trustee directory assignments
• NWUSERLIST (1) - List Users logged in at a NetWare server
• NWVOLINFO (8) - Diplay info on NetWare Volumes

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• OBJCOPY (1) - copy and translate object files
• OBJDUMP (1) - display information from object files.
• OBSOLETE (2) - obsolete system calls
• OD (1) - dump files in octal and other formats
• OMEGA (1) - extended unicode TeX
• ON_EXIT (3) - register a function to be called at normal program termination.
• OPEN (1) - start a program on a new virtual terminal (VT).
• OPEN (2) - open and possibly create a file or device
• OPEN (N) - Open a file-based or command pipeline channel
• OPENDIR (3) - open a directory
• OPENVT (1) - start a program on a new virtual terminal (VT).
• OPTION (N) - Add/retrieve window options to/from the option database
• OPTIONS (N) - Standard options supported by widgets
• OUTB (2) - port output
• OVERCHAN (8) - update the news overview database
• OVERVIEW.CTL (5) - configuration file for unified overview
• OVERVIEW.FMT (5) - format of news overview database

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• PAC (8) - pac
• PACK (-) - Obsolete syntax for packer geometry manager
• PACK (3) - Pack the active message buffer with arrays
• PACKAGE (N) - Facilities for package loading and version control
• PACKET (4) - packet interface on device level.
• PACKET (7) - packet interface on device level.
• PACKF (1) - pack messages in nmh folder into a single file
• PACK_CIS (8) - compile PCMCIA Card Information Structures
• PAL2RGB (1) - convert a palette color
• PAM_CONSOLE (8) - control permissions for users at the system console
• PAM_XAUTH (8) - forward xauth keys between users
• PANEX (6) - Panex X widget
• PARENT (3) - Returns the tid of the process that spawned
• PASSMASS (1) - change password on multiple machines
• PASSWD (1) - merge lines of files
• PASSWD (5) - password file
• PASSWD.NNTP (5) - passwords for connecting to remote NNTP servers
• PATCH (-) - metamail - Install a patch to the latest metamail release
• PATCH (1) - apply a diff file to an original
• PATGEN (1) - generate patterns for TeX hyphenation
• PATHCHK (1) - check whether file names are valid or portable
• PAUSE (2) - wait for signal
• PAWD (1) - print automounter working directory
• PBM (5) - portable bitmap file format
• PBMLIFE (1) - apply Conway's rules of Life to a portable bitmap
• PBMMAKE (1) - create a blank bitmap of a specified size
• PBMMASK (1) - create a mask bitmap from a regular bitmap
• PBMREDUCE (1) - read a portable bitmap and reduce it N times
• PBMTEXT (1) - render text into a bitmap
• PBMTO10X (1) - convert a portable bitmap into Gemini 10X printer graphics
• PBMTO4425 (1) - Display PBM images on an AT&T 4425 terminal
• PBMTOASCII (1) - convert a portable bitmap into ASCII graphics
• PBMTOATK (1) - convert portable bitmap to Andrew Toolkit raster object
• PBMTOBG (1) - convert a portable bitmap into BitGraph graphics
• PBMTOCMUWM (1) - convert a portable bitmap into a CMU window manager bitmap
• PBMTOEPSI (1) - convert a portable bitmap into an encapsulated PostScript
• PBMTOEPSON (1) - convert a portable bitmap into Epson printer graphics
• PBMTOG3 (1) - convert a portable bitmap into a Group 3 fax file
• PBMTOGEM (1) - convert a portable bitmap into a GEM .img file
• PBMTOGO (1) - convert a portable bitmap into compressed GraphOn graphics
• PBMTOICON (1) - convert a portable bitmap into a Sun icon
• PBMTOLJ (1) - convert a portable bitmap into HP LaserJet format
• PBMTOLN03 (1) - convert protable bitmap to DEC LN03+ Sixel output
• PBMTOMACP (1) - convert a portable bitmap into a MacPaint file
• PBMTOMGR (1) - convert a portable bitmap into a MGR bitmap
• PBMTOPI3 (1) - convert a portable bitmap into an Atari Degas .pi3 file
• PBMTOPK (1) - convert a portable bitmap into a packed (PK) format font
• PBMTOPLOT (1) - convert a portable bitmap into a Unix plot(5) file
• PBMTOPTX (1) - convert a portable bitmap into Printronix printer graphics
• PBMTOX10BM (1) - convert a portable bitmap into an X10 bitmap
• PBMTOXBM (1) - convert a portable bitmap into an X11 bitmap
• PBMTOYBM (1) - convert a portable bitmap into a Bennet Yee
• PBMTOZINC (L) - convert a portable bitmap into a Zinc bitmap
• PBMUPC (1) - create a Universal Product Code bitmap
• PCINITRD (8) - create a PCMCIA initrd ram disk image
• PCMCIA (5) - PCMCIA card configuration database
• PCMCIA_CORE (4) - PCMCIA Card Services core module
• PCMEM_CS (4) - PCMCIA memory card driver
• PCNET_CS (4) - generic NS8390-based PCMCIA Ethernet Driver
• PCXTOPPM (1) - convert a PCX file into a portable pixmap
• PDF2DSC (1) - generate a PostScript page list of a PDF document
• PDF2PS (1) - Ghostscript PDF to PostScript translator
• PDFIMAGES (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) image extractor
• PDFINFO (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) document information
• PDFTEX (1) - PDF output from TeX
• PDFTOPBM (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) to Portable Bitmap (PBM)
• PDFTOPS (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) to PostScript converter
• PDFTOTEXT (1) - Portable Document Format (PDF) to text converter
• PERL (1) - convert a type1 pfb file (binary MSDOS) into a pfa (ASCII)
• PERROR (3) - print a system error message
• PERSONALITY (2) - set the process execution domain
• PFBTOPS (1) - translate a PostScript font in .pfb format to ASCII
• PGACCESS (1) - Postgres graphical interactive client
• PGM (5) - portable graymap file format
• PGMBENTLEY (1) - Bentleyize a portable graymap
• PGMCRATER (1) - create cratered terrain by fractal forgery
• PGMEDGE (1) - edge-detect a portable graymap
• PGMENHANCE (1) - edge-enhance a portable graymap
• PGMHIST (1) - print a histogram of the values in a portable graymap
• PGMKERNEL (1) - generate a convolution kernel
• PGMNOISE (1) - create a graymap made up of white noise
• PGMNORM (1) - normalize the contrast in a portable graymap
• PGMOIL (1) - turn a portable graymap into an oil painting
• PGMRAMP (1) - generate a grayscale ramp
• PGMTEXTURE (1) - calculate textural features on a portable graymap
• PGMTOFS (1) - convert portable graymap to Usenix FaceSaver(tm) format
• PGMTOLISPM (1) - convert a portable graymap into Lisp Machine format
• PGMTOPBM (1) - convert a portable graymap into a portable bitmap
• PGMTOPPM (1) - colorize a portable graymap into a portable pixmap
• PGPVERIFY (8) - cryptographically verify Usenet control messages
• PGTCLSH (1) - Postgres TCL shell client
• PGTKSH (1) - Postgres graphical TCL/TK shell
• PG_DUMP (1) - Extract a Postgres database into a script file
• PG_DUMPALL (1) - Extract all Postgres databases into a script file
• PG_HBA.CONF (5) - $PGDATA/pg_hba.conf
• PG_PASSWD (1) - Manipulate the flat password file
• PG_UPGRADE (1) - Allows upgrade from a previous release without reloading data
• PHOTO (N) - Full-color images
• PHYS (2) - allow a process to access physical addresses [NOT IMPLEMENTED]
• PI1TOPPM (1) - convert an Atari Degas .pi1 into a portable pixmap
• PI3TOPBM (1) - convert an Atari Degas .pi3 file into a portable bitmap
• PIC (1) - compile pictures for troff or TeX
• PICK (1) - search for messages by content
• PICO (1) - simple text editor in the style of the Pine Composer
• PICTTOPPM (1) - convert a Macintosh PICT file into a portable pixmap
• PID (N) - Retrieve process id(s)
• PIDOF (8) - - find the process ID of a running program.
• PILOT (-) - xfer - backup and restore databases to and from a 3Com Pilot
• PILOT (1) - simple file system browser in the style of the Pine Composer
• PINE (1) - a Program for Internet News and Email
• PING (8) - ping
• PINKY (1) - lightweight finger
• PIPE (2) - create pipe
• PIVOT_ROOT (2) - change the root file system
• PJTOPPM (1) - convert an HP PaintJet file to a portable pixmap
• PK2BM (1) - create a bitmap from a TeX pkfont
• PKG_MKINDEX (N) - Build an index for automatic loading of packages
• PKMESG (3) - pvm_pkmesg,
• PKTOGF (1) - convert packed font files to generic font files
• PKTOPBM (1) - convert packed (PK) format font into portable bitmap(s)
• PKTYPE (1) - verify and translate a packed font bitmap file to plain text
• PL2PM (1) - play any sound file to audio device
• PLACE (N) - Geometry manager for fixed or rubber-sheet placement
• PLANE (6) - draw a 3 dimensional plane
• PLAYMIDI (1) - playmidi, xplaymidi, splaymidi
• PLIPCONFIG (8) - fine tune PLIP device parameters
• PLTOTF (1) - convert property list files to TeX font metric (tfm) format
• PMAKE (1) - create programs in parallel
• PMAP_DUMP (8) - print a list of all registered RPC programs
• PMAP_SET (8) - set the list of registered RPC programs
• PMSQL (1) - a program for posting news articles
• PNG (5) - Portable Network Graphics (PNG) format
• PNGTOPNM (1) - convert a Portable Network Graphics file into a portable anymap
• PNM (5) - portable anymap file format
• PNMALIAS (1) - antialias a portable anyumap.
• PNMARITH (1) - perform arithmetic on two portable anymaps
• PNMCAT (1) - concatenate portable anymaps
• PNMCOMP (1) - composite two portable anymap files together
• PNMCONVOL (1) - general MxN convolution on a portable anymap
• PNMCROP (1) - crop a portable anymap
• PNMCUT (1) - cut a rectangle out of a portable anymap
• PNMDEPTH (1) - change the maxval in a portable anymap
• PNMENLARGE (1) - read a portable anymap and enlarge it N times
• PNMFILE (1) - describe a portable anymap
• PNMFLIP (1) - perform one or more flip operations on a portable anymap
• PNMGAMMA (1) - perform gamma correction on a portable anymap
• PNMHISTEQ (1) - histogram equalise a portable anymap
• PNMHISTMAP (1) - draw a histogram for a PGM or PPM file
• PNMINDEX (1) - build a visual index of a bunch of anymaps
• PNMINVERT (1) - invert a portable anymap
• PNMMARGIN (1) - add a border to a portable anymap
• PNMNLFILT (1) - non-linear filters: smooth, alpha trim mean, optimal
• PNMNORAW (1) - force a portable anymap into plain format
• PNMPASTE (1) - paste a rectangle into a portable anymap
• PNMROTATE (1) - rotate a portable anymap by some angle
• PNMSCALE (1) - scale a portable anymap
• PNMSHEAR (1) - shear a portable anymap by some angle
• PNMSMOOTH (1) - smooth out an image
• PNMTILE (1) - replicate a portable anymap into a specified size
• PNMTODDIF (1) - Convert a portable anymap to DDIF format
• PNMTOFITS (1) - convert a portable anymap into FITS format
• PNMTOPNG (1) - convert a portable anymap into a Portable Network Graphics file
• PNMTOPS (1) - convert portable anymap to PostScript
• PNMTORAST (1) - convert a portable pixmap into a Sun rasterfile
• PNMTOSGI (1) - convert a portable anymap to a SGI image file
• PNMTOSIR (1) - convert a portable anymap into a Solitaire format
• PNMTOTIFF (1) - convert a a portable anymap into a TIFF file
• PNMTOXWD (1) - convert a portable anymap into an X11 window dump
• PNPDUMP (8) - Dump ISA Plug-And-Play devices resource information
• PNPPROBE (8) - scan ISA bus for PnP sound cards
• POD2HTML (1) - display a WEB pool file
• POLL (2) - wait for some event on a file descriptor
• POPEN (3) - process I/O
• POPT (3) - Parse command line options
• PORTMAP (8) - portmap
• POST (8) - deliver a message
• POSTGRES (1) - Run a Postgres single-user backend
• POSTGRESQL (-) - dump - a utility to dump and destroy a PostgreSQL database when
• POSTMASTER (1) - Run the Postgres multi-user backend
• POWERD (8) - powerd monitor a serial line connected to an UPS.
• PPC386 (1) - Free Pascal Compiler (FPC) binary, name derived from Portable Pascal Compiler
• PPC386.CFG (5) - Free Pascal Compiler (FPC) configuration file, name derived from Portable Pascal Compiler.
• PPDEP (1) - The FPC Pascal unit dependency tracking program.
• PPM (5) - portable pixmap file format
• PPM2TIFF (1) - create a
• PPM3D (1) - convert two portable pixmap into a red/blue 3d glasses pixmap
• PPMBRIGHTEN (1) - change an images Saturation and Value from an HSV map
• PPMCHANGE (1) - change all pixels of one color to another in a portable pixmap
• PPMDIM (1) - dim a portable pixmap down to total blackness
• PPMDIST (1) - simplistic grayscale assignment for machine generated, color images
• PPMDITHER (1) - ordered dither for color images
• PPMFLASH (1) - brighten a picture up to complete white-out
• PPMFORGE (1) - fractal forgeries of clouds, planets, and starry skies
• PPMHIST (1) - print a histogram of a portable pixmap
• PPMMAKE (1) - create a pixmap of a specified size and color
• PPMMIX (1) - blend together two portable pixmaps
• PPMNORM (1) - normalize the contrast in a portable pixmap
• PPMNTSC (1) - make a portable pixmap look like taken from an American TV
• PPMOVE (1) - The FPC Pascal unit mover.
• PPMPAT (1) - make a pretty pixmap
• PPMQUANT (1) - quantize the colors in a portable pixmap down to a specified number
• PPMQUANTALL (1) - run ppmquant on a bunch of files all at once, so they share a common colormap
• PPMQVGA (1) - 8 plane quantization
• PPMRELIEF (1) - run a Laplacian relief filter on a portable pixmap
• PPMSHIFT (1) - shift lines of a portable pixmap left or right by a random amount
• PPMSPREAD (1) - displace a portable pixmap's pixels by a random amount
• PPMTOACAD (1) - convert portable pixmap to AutoCAD database or slide
• PPMTOBMP (1) - convert a portable pixmap into a BMP file
• PPMTOGIF (1) - convert a portable pixmap into a GIF file
• PPMTOICR (1) - convert a portable pixmap into NCSA ICR format
• PPMTOILBM (1) - convert a portable pixmap into an ILBM file
• PPMTOMAP (1) - extract all colors from a portable pixmap
• PPMTOMITSU (1) - convert a portable pixmap to a Mitsubishi S340-10 file
• PPMTOPCX (1) - convert a portable pixmap into a PCX file
• PPMTOPGM (1) - convert a portable pixmap into a portable graymap
• PPMTOPI1 (1) - convert a portable pixmap into an Atari Degas .pi1 file
• PPMTOPICT (1) - convert a portable pixmap into a Macintosh PICT file
• PPMTOPJ (1) - convert a portable pixmap to an HP PaintJet file
• PPMTOPJXL (1) - convert a portable pixmap into an HP PaintJet XL PCL file
• PPMTOPUZZ (1) - convert a portable pixmap into an X11
• PPMTORGB3 (1) - separate a portable pixmap into three portable graymaps
• PPMTOSIXEL (1) - convert a portable pixmap into DEC sixel format
• PPMTOTGA (1) - convert portable pixmap into a TrueVision Targa file
• PPMTOUIL (1) - convert a portable pixmap into a Motif UIL icon file
• PPMTOXPM (1) - convert a portable pixmap into an X11 pixmap
• PPMTOYUV (1) - convert a portable pixmap into an Abekas YUV file
• PPMTOYUVSPLIT (1) - convert a portable pixmap into 3 subsampled raw YUV files
• PPP (-) - watch - daemon to make PPP interfaces act more like other interfaces
• PPPD (8) - Point to Point Protocol daemon
• PPPDUMP (8) - convert PPP record file to readable format
• PPPSTATS (8) - print PPP statistics
• PPUDUMP (1) - The FPC Pascal unit dump program.
• PQLIST (1) - List available NetWare print queues
• PQRM (1) - Remove job from NetWare print queue
• PQSTAT (1) - List jobs in NetWare print queue
• PR (1) - convert text files for printing
• PRALIASES (1) - praliases
• PRCTL (2) - operations on a process
• PREAD (2) - read from or write to a file descriptor at a given offset
• PRECV (3) - Receive a message directly into a buffer.
• PREV (1) - show the previous message
• PRINTCAP (5) - printcap
• PRINTENV (1) - print all or part of environment
• PRINTF (1) - format and print data
• PRINTF (3) - formatted output conversion
• PRINTFTEST (6) - tests the vgagl gl_printf function
• PRINTMAIL (1) - format mail in a readable fashion for printing
• PRIVATEPW (8) - Change WU-FTPD Group Access File Information
• PROBE (3) - Check if message has arrived.
• PROC (5) - process information pseudo-filesystem
• PROC (N) - Create a Tcl procedure
• PROCINFO (8) - display system status gathered from /proc
• PROCMAIL (1) - autonomous mail processor
• PROCMAILEX (5) - procmail rcfile examples
• PROCMAILRC (5) - procmail rcfile
• PROCMAILSC (5) - procmail weighted scoring techique
• PROCSCHEMA (5) - LAM process schema format
• PROFIL (2) - execution time profile
• PROFIL (3) - execution time profile
• PROMPTER (1) - prompting editor front-end for nmh
• PROTOCOLS (5) - the protocols definition file
• PRUNEHISTORY (8) - remove file names from Usenet history file
• PS (1) - report process status
• PS2ASCII (1) - Ghostscript translator from PostScript or PDF to ASCII
• PS2EPSI (1) - generate conforming Encapsulated PostScript
• PS2FRAG (1) - obsolete shell script for the PSfrag system.
• PS2PDF (1) - Ghostscript PostScript to PDF translator
• PS2PK (1) - creates a TeX pkfont from a type1 PostScript font
• PS2PS (1) - Ghostscript PostScript
• PSBB (1) - extract bounding box from PostScript document
• PSEND (2) - psend, precv, psendopen, precvopen, psendclose, precvclose
• PSEND (3) - Pack and send data in one call.
• PSERVER (1) - NetWare print server
• PSFADDTABLE (1) - add a Unicode character table to a console font
• PSFGETTABLE (1) - extract the embedded Unicode character table from a console font
• PSFSTRIPTABLE (1) - remove the embedded Unicode character table from a console font
• PSIDTOPGM (1) - convert PostScript
• PSIGNAL (3) - print signal message
• PSQL (1) - Postgres interactive client
• PSTAT (3) - Returns the status of the specified PVM process.
• PSTOPNM (1) - convert a PostScript file into a portable anymap
• PSTREE (1) - display a tree of processes
• PSTRUCT (1) - The FPC Pascal configurable source beautifier.
• PSUPDATE (8) - update the ps database of kernel offsets
• PTOP.CFG (5) - The ptop source-beautifier configuration file.
• PTRACE (2) - process trace
• PTX (1) - produce a permuted index of file contents
• PULLNEWS (8) - a perl script for pulling news from one news machine and feeding it
• PULSE (8) - heartbeating daemon for monitoring the health of cluster nodes
• PUMP (8) - configure network interface via BOOTP or DHCP protocol
• PUTENV (3) - change or add an environment variable
• PUTINFO (3) - pvm_putinfo,
• PUTPWENT (3) - write a password file entry
• PUTS (3) - output of characters and strings
• PUTS (N) - Write to a channel
• PUTWCHAR (3) - write a wide character to standard output
• PVMD (1) - PVM daemon
• PVM_INTRO (1) - Parallel Virtual Machine System Version 3
• PVM_SHMD (1) - PVM shared memory (2) daemon
• PWCK (1) - verify integrity of password files
• PWCONV (8) - convert to and from shadow passwords and groups.
• PWD (1) - print name of current/working directory
• PWD (N) - Return the current working directory
• PWUPDATE (8) - updates passwd and shadow NIS map

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• QRTTOPPM (1) - convert output from the QRT ray tracer into a portable pixmap
• QSORT (3) - sorts an array
• QT2KDOC (1) - display disk usage and limits
• QUANTIZE (9) - ImageMagick's color reduction algorithm.
• QUERY_MODULE (2) - query the kernel for various bits pertaining to modules.
• QUOTACHECK (8) - scan a file system for disk usages
• QUOTACTL (2) - manipulate disk quotas
• QUOTAON (8) - turn file system quotas on and off

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• RADIOBUTTON (N) - Create and manipulate radiobutton widgets
• RAID0RUN (8) - starts up old (superblock-less) RAID0/LINEAR arrays
• RAIDADD (8) - obsolete RAID command
• RAIDRUN (8) - obsolete RAID command
• RAIDSTART (8) - command set to manage md devices.
• RAIDTAB (5) - configuration file for md (RAID) devices
• RAISE (3) - send a signal to the current process
• RAISE (N) - Change a window's position in the stacking order
• RAM (4) - ram disk device
• RAND (3) - random number generator.
• RANDOM (3) - random number generator.
• RANDOM (4) - kernel random number source devices
• RANLIB (1) - generate index to archive.
• RARP (8) - manipulate the system RARP table
• RAS2TIFF (1) - create a
• RASTTOPNM (1) - convert a Sun rasterfile into a portable anymap
• RAW (4) - Linux IPv4 RAW sockets
• RAW (7) - Linux IPv4 raw sockets
• RAW (8) - bind a Linux raw character device
• RAWTOPGM (1) - convert raw grayscale bytes into a portable graymap
• RAWTOPPM (1) - convert raw RGB bytes into a portable pixmap
• RBFLOOK (2) - Retrieve a copy of a buffered LAM message packet.
• RBFPARMS (2) - rbfparms, rbfsweep, rbfsweep1, rbfudie, rbfwipe
• RBFSTATE (2) - Report status of remote LAM buffers.
• RCLOCK (1) - rclock (ouR CLOCK)
• RCMD (3) - rcmd ,
• RCP (1) - rcp
• RCPT500 (8) - mail to X.500 gateway program
• RCS (1) - change RCS file attributes
• RCSCLEAN (1) - clean up working files
• RCSDIFF (1) - compare RCS revisions
• RCSFILE (5) - format of RCS file
• RCSINTRO (1) - introduction to RCS commands
• RCSMERGE (1) - merge RCS revisions
• RCVDIST (1) - asynchronously redistribute new mail
• RCVPACK (1) - append message to file
• RCVSTORE (1) - asynchronously incorporate mail into a folder
• RCVTTY (1) - report new mail
• RDATE (1) - get the time via the network
• RDEV (8) - query/set image root device, swap device, RAM disk size, or video mode
• RDIST (1) - remote file distribution client program
• RDISTD (8) - remote file distribution server program
• RDJPGCOM (1) - display text comments from a JPEG file
• READ (-) - ical - coverts information on USR Pilot into Ical calendar
• READ (2) - read from a file descriptor
• READ (N) - Read from a channel
• READDIR (2) - read directory entry
• READDIR (3) - read a directory
• READLINE (3) - get a line from a user with editing
• READLINK (1) - print contents of symbolic link
• READLINK (2) - read value of a symbolic link
• READMSG (1) - extract messages from a mail folder
• READPROFILE (1) - a tool to read kernel profiling information
• READV (2) - read or write a vector
• READV (3) - read or write data into multiple buffers
• REALPATH (3) - return the canonicalized absolute pathname
• REBOOT (2) - reboot or enable/disable Ctrl-Alt-Del
• RECHO (2) - Send messages to LAM echo server.
• RECNO (3) - record number database access method
• RECON (1) - Check if LAM can be started.
• RECV (2) - receive a message from a socket
• RECV (3) - Receive a message.
• RECVF (3) - Redefines the comparison function used to accept messages.
• REDUCE (3) - Performs a reduction operation over members of the specified group.
• REFER (1) - preprocess bibliographic references for groff
• REFILE (1) - file message in other folders
• REGCOMP (3) - POSIX regex functions
• REGEX (7) - POSIX 1003.2 regular expressions
• REGEXP (N) - Match a regular expression against a string
• REGISTRY (N) - Manipulate the Windows registry
• REGSUB (N) - Perform substitutions based on regular expression pattern matching
• REG_HOSTER (3) - Register task as PVM slave starter.
• REG_RM (3) - Register task as PVM resource manager.
• REG_TASKER (3) - Register task as PVM task starter.
• REMOVE (3) - delete a name and possibly the file it refers to
• RENAME (1) - Rename files
• RENAME (2) - change the name or location of a file
• RENAME (N) - Rename or delete a command
• RENICE (8) - renice
• REPL (1) - reply to a message
• REPQUOTA (8) - summarize quotas for a file system
• RESET (L) - Restores run-time parameters for session to default values
• RESIZECONS (8) - change kernel idea of the console size
• RESOLVER (3) - res_init, res_query, res_search, res_querydomain, res_mkquery, res_send,
• RESOLVER (5) - resolver
• RESOURCE (N) - Manipulate Macintosh resources
• RESTORE (8) - restore
• RESTOREFONT (1) - save or restore the SVGA font for textmode.
• RESTOREPALETTE (1) - set the color palette for textmode.
• RESTORETEXTMODE (1) - save or restore the SVGA registers for textmode.
• RETURN (N) - Return from a procedure
• REV (1) - rev
• REVNETGROUP (8) - generate reverse netgroup data
• REVOKE (L) - Revokes access privilege from a user, a group or all users.
• REWINDDIR (3) - reset directory stream
• REXEC (1) - - remote execution client for an exec server
• REXECD (8) - rexecd
• RE_COMP (3) - BSD regex functions
• RFLAT (2) - Tag and load storage on LAM remote nodes.
• RGB2YCBCR (1) - convert non-YCbCr
• RGB3TOPPM (1) - combine three portable graymaps into one portable pixmap
• RGET (2) - Find tagged storage on a LAM remote node.
• RICHTEXT (1) - View a richtext document, typically a mail message
• RINT (3) - round to closest integer
• RLOAD (2) - Load a file onto a LAM remote node.
• RLOG (1) - print log messages and other information about RCS files
• RLOGIN (1) - rlogin
• RLOGIND (8) - rlogind
• RM (1) - remove files or directories
• RMAIL (8) - rmail
• RMDIR (1) - remove empty directories
• RMDIR (2) - delete a directory
• RMF (1) - remove an nmh folder
• RMM (1) - remove messages
• RMMOD (1) - unload loadable modules
• RMT (8) - rmt
• RNEWS (1) - receive news from a UUCP connection
• RNMAIL (1) - a program for replying via mail
• ROLLBACK (L) - Aborts the current transaction
• ROTATELOGS (8) - rotate Apache logs without having to kill the server
• ROUTE (8) - show / manipulate the IP routing table
• ROUTED (8) - routed
• RPC (3) - library routines for remote procedure calls
• RPC (5) - rpc program number data base
• RPC.MOUNTD (8) - NFS mount daemon
• RPC.NFSD (8) - NFS server process
• RPC.RSTATD (8) - rstatd ,
• RPC.RUSERSD (8) - rpc.rusersd
• RPC.RWALLD (8) - rpc.rwalld
• RPC.STATD (8) - NSM status monitor
• RPC.YPPASSWDD (8) - NIS password update daemon
• RPC.YPXFRD (8) - NIS map transfer server
• RPCINFO (8) - rpcinfo
• RPCREATE (2) - Create a LAM process on a remote node.
• RPDOOM (2) - Signal LAM processes on a remote node.
• RPGO (2) - Create a LAM process on a remote node from tagged storage.
• RPLOADGO (2) - Load and execute a LAM program on a remote node.
• RPM (8) - Red Hat Package Manager
• RPSPAWN (2) - Spawn a LAM process onto a remote node.
• RPSTATE (2) - Report status of LAM processes on a remote node.
• RPWAIT (2) - Wait for a child LAM process to terminate.
• RQUOTA (3) - implement quotas on remote machines
• RQUOTAD (8) - remote quota server
• RRSETRENTS (2) - Set LAM route information.
• RR_GET_INTERVAL (2) - get the SCHED_RR interval for the named process
• RSH (1) - rsh
• RSHD (8) - rshd
• RSYNC (1) - script interpreter for minicom
• RSYNCD.CONF (5) - file which lists ttys from which root can log in
• RTCSLEEP (1) - go into suspend or standby mode and wake-up later
• RTNETLINK (3) - Macros to manipuate rtnetlink messages
• RTNETLINK (4) - Linux IPv4 routing socket.
• RTNETLINK (7) - Linux IPv4 routing socket.
• RUNLEVEL (8) - - find the current and previous system runlevel.
• RUNX (1) - try to overcome problems of Xfree96 restoring textmode using svgalib.
• RUP (1) - rup
• RUPTIME (1) - ruptime
• RUSERS (1) - rusers
• RWALL (1) - rwall
• RWHO (1) - rwho
• RWHOD (8) - rwhod
• RZ (1) - XMODEM, YMODEM, ZMODEM (Batch) file receive

- S -

• S2P (1) - save or restore the complete SVGA status for textmode.
• SA (8) - summarizes accounting information
• SAFE TCL (N) - A mechanism for creating and manipulating safe interpreters.
• SAFE TK (N) - Load Tk into a safe interpreter.
• SAMBA (7) - list of available signals
• SASH (1) - stand-alone shell with built-in commands
• SCALE (N) - Create and manipulate scale widgets
• SCAN (1) - produce a one line per message scan listing
• SCAN (N) - Parse string using conversion specifiers in the style of sscanf
• SCANDIR (3) - scan a directory for matching entries
• SCANF (3) - input format conversion
• SCANLOGS (8) - summarize INN log files.
• SCATTER (3) - Sends to each member of a group a section of an array
• SCHED_SETPARAM (2) - set and get scheduling parameters
• SCHEME (1) - UMB Scheme ($Revision: 3.2 $)
• SCP (1) - secure copy (remote file copy program)
• SCREEN (1) - screen manager with VT100/ANSI terminal emulation
• SCRIPT (1) - script
• SCROLLBAR (N) - Create and manipulate scrollbar widgets
• SCROLLTEST (6) - tests some scrolling algorithms with svgalib
• SCSI_INFO (8) - SCSI device description tool
• SD (4) - Driver for SCSI Disk Drives
• SDIFF (1) - find differences between two files and merge interactively
• SED (1) - a Stream EDitor
• SEEK (N) - Change the access position for an open channel
• SEEKDIR (3) - set the position of the next readdir() call in the directory
• SELECT (2) - synchronous I/O multiplexing
• SELECT (L) - Retrieve rows from a table or view.
• SELECTION (N) - Manipulate the X selection
• SELECT_INTO (L) - Create a new table from an existing table or view
• SEMCTL (2) - semaphore control operations
• SEMGET (2) - get a semaphore set identifier
• SEMOP (2) - semaphore operations
• SEND (-) - uucp, send-nntp, send-ihave - send Usenet articles to remote site
• SEND (1) - send a message
• SEND (2) - send a message from a socket
• SEND (3) - Immediately sends the data in the active message buffer.
• SEND (N) - Execute a command in a different application
• SENDFILE (2) - transfer data between file descriptors
• SENDFILES (1) - send multiple files via a MIME message
• SENDMAIL (8) - sendmail
• SENDSIG (3) - Sends a signal to another PVM process.
• SERIAL_CS (4) - PCMCIA serial port driver
• SERROR (3) - Sets automatic error message printing on or off.
• SERVICES (5) - Internet network services list
• SESSREG (1) - manage utmp/wtmp entries for non-init clients
• SET (L) - Set run-time parameters for session
• SET (N) - Read and write variables
• SETBUF (3) - stream buffering operations
• SETCLOCK (8) - sets the hardware clock from the system clock
• SETCONSOLE (8) - sets the systems console to local video or serial console
• SETENV (3) - change or add an environment variable
• SETFDPRM (8) - sets user-provided floppy disk parameters
• SETFONT (8) - load EGA/VGA console screen font
• SETFSGID (2) - set group identity used for file system checks
• SETFSUID (2) - set user identity used for file system checks
• SETGID (2) - set group identity
• SETJMP (3) - save stack context for non-local goto
• SETKEYCODES (8) - load kernel scancode-to-keycode mapping table entries
• SETLEDS (1) - set the keyboard leds
• SETLOCALE (3) - set the current locale.
• SETMCLK (1) - adjust the memory timing of certain Cirrus cards.
• SETMETAMODE (1) - define the keyboard meta key handling
• SETMWID (3) - pvm_getmwid,
• SETOPT (3) - Sets libpvm options.
• SETPCI (8) - configure PCI devices
• SETPGID (2) - set/get process group
• SETPNP (8) - modify Plug and Play BIOS device resources
• SETQUOTA (8) - set disk quotas
• SETRBUF (3) - Switches the active receive buffer and saves the
• SETREGID (2) - set real and / or effective group ID
• SETRESUID (2) - set real, effective and saved user or group ID
• SETREUID (2) - set real and / or effective user ID
• SETSBUF (3) - Switches the active send buffer.
• SETSCHEDULER (2) - yield the processor
• SETSERIAL (8) - get/set Linux serial port information
• SETSID (2) - creates a session and sets the process group ID
• SETSID (8) - run a program in a new session
• SETTERM (1) - set terminal attributes
• SETTMASK (3) - pvm_gettmask,
• SETUID (2) - set user identity
• SETUP (2) - setup devices and file systems, mount root file system
• SFDISK (8) - Partition table manipulator for Linux
• SFXLOAD (1) - load a SoundFont file on the AWE32 sound driver
• SGI2TIFF (1) - create a
• SGITOPNM (1) - convert a SGI image file to a portable anymap
• SGML2HTML (1) - create HTML output from a SGML source file
• SGML2INFO (1) - create GNU info output from a SGML source file
• SGML2LATEX (1) - create LaTeX, DVI or PostScript output from a SGML source file
• SGML2LYX (1) - create LyX output from a SGML source file
• SGML2RTF (1) - create RTF output from a SGML source file
• SGML2TXT (1) - create plain text output from a SGML source file
• SGMLCHECK (1) - check the syntax of an SGML-Tools document file
• SGMLSASP (1) - translate output of sgmls using ASP replacement files
• SGMLTOOLS (1) - SGML-tools translators to other markup languages
• SH (1) - a shell
• SHADOW (3) - encrypted password file routines
• SHADOW (5) - encrypted password file
• SHAR (1) - create shell archives
• SHELLS (5) - pathnames of valid login shells
• SHLOCK (1) - create lock files for use in shell scripts
• SHMCTL (2) - shared memory control
• SHMGET (2) - allocates a shared memory segment
• SHMOP (2) - shared memory operations
• SHOW (1) - show (display) messages
• SHOW (L) - Shows run-time parameters for session
• SHOWAUDIO (1) - Play an audio email message
• SHOWEXTERNAL (1) - Fetch and display the body of a mail message that is included by reference
• SHOWFONT (1) - displays all characters in the current screen-font.
• SHOWKEY (1) - examine the scan codes and keycodes sent by the keyboard
• SHOWMOUNT (8) - show mount information for an NFS server
• SHOWNONASCII (1) - View all or part of a mail message in a non-ASCII font
• SHOWPARTIAL (1) - Fetch and display the body of a mail message that is included by reference
• SHOWPICTURE (1) - View an image received in the mail
• SHOWTABLE (1) - delete a file securely, first overwriting it to hide its contents
• SHRINKFILE (1) - shrink a file on a line boundary
• SHUTDOWN (2) - shut down part of a full-duplex connection
• SHUTDOWN (8) - bring the system down
• SIBLINGS (3) - return the number and associated task ids of
• SIGACTION (2) - POSIX signal handling functions.
• SIGALTSTACK (2) - get or set alternate signal stack content
• SIGBLOCK (2) - manipulate the signal mask
• SIGINTERRUPT (3) - allow signals to interrupt system calls
• SIGNAL (2) - ANSI C signal handling
• SIGPAUSE (2) - atomically release blocked signals and wait for interrupt
• SIGRETURN (2) - return from signal handler and cleanup stack frame
• SIGSETOPS (3) - POSIX
• SIGVEC (2) - BSD software signal facilities
• SIMPLEFTP (1) - rudimentary ftp client
• SIN (3) - sine function
• SINH (3) - hyperbolic sine function
• SIRTOPNM (1) - convert a Solitaire file into a portable anymap
• SIZE (1) - list section sizes and total size.
• SKILL (1) - report process status
• SLAPD (8) - Stand-alone LDAP Daemon
• SLAPD.CONF (5) - configuration file for slapd, the stand-alone LDAP daemon
• SLAPD.REPLOG (5) - slapd replication log format
• SLATTACH (8) - attach a network interface to a serial line
• SLDTOPPM (1) - convert an AutoCAD slide file into a portable pixmap
• SLEEP (1) - delay for a specified amount of time
• SLIPLOGIN (8) - sliplogin
• SLIST (1) - Lists available NetWare Servers
• SLOCAL (1) - asynchronously filter and deliver new mail
• SLOCATE (1) - Security Enhanced version of the GNU Locate
• SLRN (1) - An easy to use NNTP based newsreader.
• SLURPD (8) - Standalone LDAP Update Replication Daemon
• SM (8) - command line interface to the storage manager
• SMB.CONF (5) - configuration file for the ucd-snmp applications.
• SMBCLIENT (1) - communicates with a network entity using SNMP BULK Requests.
• SMBD (8) - umount for normal users
• SMC91C92_CS (4) - SMC 91cxx device driver
• SNDCONFIG (8) - configure sound card for use with Linux kernel modules
• SNMP.CONF (8) - describes how to configure the ucd-snmp applications.
• SNMPBULKWALK (1) - communicates with a network entity using SNMP BULK Requests.
• SNMPCMD (1) - commmands to communicate with a network entity using SNMP Requests.
• SNMPD (1) - daemon to respond to SNMP request packets.
• SNMPD (8) - cmu's snmp agent for Linux
• SNMPD.CONF (5) - configuration file for the ucd-snmp SNMP agent.
• SNMPDELTA (1) - Monitor deltas of integer valued SNMP variables
• SNMPGET (1) - communicates with a network entity using SNMP GET Requests.
• SNMPGETNEXT (1) - communicates with a network entity using SNMP GET NEXT Requests.
• SNMPNETSTAT (1) - show network status using SNMP
• SNMPSET (1) - communicates with a network entity using SNMP SET Requests.
• SNMPSTATUS (1) - Retrieves important information from a network entity.
• SNMPTABLE (1) - obtain and print an SNMP table
• SNMPTEST (1) - communicates with a network entity using SNMP Requests
• SNMPTRANSLATE (1) - translate SNMP objects into more useful information
• SNMPTRAP (1) - sends an SNMP trap to a manager
• SNMPTRAPD (8) - Receive and log snmp trap messages.
• SNMPTRAPD.CONF (8) - configuration file for the ucd-snmp trap demon.
• SNMPWALK (1) - communicates with a network entity using SNMP GET Next Requests.
• SNMP_API (3) - send and receive SNMP messages
• SOCKET (2) - create an endpoint for communication
• SOCKET (4) - Linux socket interface
• SOCKET (7) - Linux socket interface
• SOCKET (N) - Open a TCP network connection
• SOCKETPAIR (2) - create a pair of connected sockets
• SOCKLIST (8) - display list of open sockets
• SOELIM (1) - interpret .so requests in groff input
• SONAR (1) - display a sonar scope
• SORT (1) - sort lines of text files
• SORTM (1) - sort messages
• SOURCE (N) - Evaluate a file or resource as a Tcl script
• SOX (1) - Sound eXchange : universal sound sample translator
• SPAWN (3) - Starts new PVM processes.
• SPCTOPPM (1) - convert an Atari compressed Spectrum file into a portable pixmap
• SPEEDTEST (6) - tests the speed of memory access under svgalib
• SPIN (6) - test a 6-dimension mouse or pointer device with svgalib
• SPLAIN (1) - split a file into pieces
• SPLIT (N) - Split a string into a proper Tcl list
• SPLITMAIL (1) - Split a large mail message into MIME-compliant partial messages
• SPOTTOPGM (1) - convert SPOT satellite images to Portable Greymap format
• SPUTOPPM (1) - convert an Atari uncompressed Spectrum file into a portable pixmap
• SQ (1) - squeeze a sorted word list
• SQRT (3) - square root function
• SSH (-) - add - adds identities for the authentication agent
• SSH (1) - secure shell client (remote login program)
• SSHD (8) - secure shell daemon
• ST (4) - SCSI tape device
• STAB (5) - current PCMCIA socket status
• STARTINNFEED (8) - setuid root program to start innfeed
• START_PVMD (3) - Starts new PVM daemon.
• STAT (1) - print inode contents
• STAT (2) - get file status
• STATE (1) - Report status of LAM processes.
• STATFS (2) - get file system statistics
• STATSERIAL (1) - trace system calls and signals
• STDARG (3) - variable argument lists
• STDIN (3) - stdin ,
• STDIO (3) - standard input/output library functions
• STIME (2) - set time
• STINIT (8) - initialize SCSI magnetic tape drives
• STORAGE.CONF (5) - configuration file for storage manager
• STORAGE.CTL (5) - configuration file for storage manager
• STPCPY (3) - copy a string returning a pointer to its end
• STPNCPY (3) - copy a fixed-size string, returning a pointer to its end
• STRCASECMP (3) - compare two strings ignoring case
• STRCAT (3) - concatenate two strings
• STRCHR (3) - locate character in string
• STRCMP (3) - compare two strings
• STRCOLL (3) - compare two strings using the current locale
• STRCPY (3) - copy a string
• STRDUP (3) - duplicate a string
• STRERROR (3) - return string describing error code
• STRFILE (1) - create a random access file for storing strings
• STRFRY (3) - randomize a string
• STRFTIME (3) - format date and time
• STRING (3) - strcasecmp, strcat, strchr, strcmp, strcoll, strcpy, strcspn,
• STRING (N) - Manipulate strings
• STRINGS (1) - print the strings of printable characters in files
• STRIP (1) - Discard symbols from object files.
• STRLEN (3) - calculate the length of a string
• STRNLEN (3) - determine the length of a fixed-size string
• STRPBRK (3) - search a string for any of a set of characters
• STRPTIME (3) - convert a string representation of time to a time tm structure
• STRSEP (3) - extract token from string
• STRSIGNAL (3) - return string describing signal
• STRSPN (3) - search a string for a set of characters
• STRSTR (3) - locate a substring
• STRTOD (3) - convert ASCII string to double
• STRTOK (3) - extract token from string
• STRTOL (3) - convert a string to a long integer.
• STRTOUL (3) - convert a string to an unsigned long integer.
• STRXFRM (3) - string transformation
• STTY (1) - change and print terminal line settings
• SU (1) - run a shell with substitute user and group IDs
• SUBST (1) - substitute definitions into file(s)
• SUBST (N) - Perform backslash, command, and variable substitutions
• SUEXEC (8) - Switch User For Exec
• SUFFIXES (7) - list of file suffixes
• SULOGIN (8) - - Single-user login
• SUM (1) - checksum and count the blocks in a file
• SVGAKEYMAP (1) - generates keymaps for svgalib
• SVGALIB (7) - a low level graphics library for linux
• SVGALIB.CHIPS (7) - Information for Chips and Technologies Users
• SVGALIB.ET4000 (7) - Information for Tseng ET4000 users
• SVGALIB.ET6000 (7) - Information for Tseng ET6000 users
• SVGALIB.FAQ (7) - frequently asked questions about svgalib
• SVGALIB.MACH32 (7) - Information on the Mach32 chipset driver
• SVGATEXTMODE (8) - Textmode manipulation/enhancement tool
• SWAB (3) - swap adjacent bytes
• SWAPON (2) - start/stop swapping to file/device
• SWAPON (8) - enable/disable devices and files for paging and swapping
• SWAT (8) - symbolic link maintenance utility
• SWITCH (N) - Evaluate one of several scripts, depending on a given value
• SWITCHDESK (1) - graphical and text mode interface for choosing desktop environment
• SWITCHTO (1) - switch to a new virtual terminal (VT).
• SYMLINK (2) - make a new name for a file
• SYNC (1) - flush filesystem buffers
• SYNC (2) - commit buffer cache to disk.
• SYNC (8) - synchronize data on disk with memory
• SYS (-) - unconfig - shell script to reconfigure the system upon next boot
• SYSCALLS (2) - list of all system calls
• SYSCONF (3) - Get configuration information at runtime
• SYSCTL (2) - read/write system parameters
• SYSCTL (8) - configure kernel parameters at runtime
• SYSFS (2) - get file system type information
• SYSINFO (2) - returns information on overall system statistics
• SYSKLOGD (8) - Linux system logging utilities.
• SYSLOG (2) - read and/or clear kernel message ring buffer; set console_loglevel
• SYSLOG (3) - send messages to the system logger
• SYSLOG.CONF (5) - syslogd(8) configuration file
• SYSTEM (3) - execute a shell command
• SZ (1) - XMODEM, YMODEM, ZMODEM file send

- T -

• T3D (1) - clock using flying balls to display the time
• TAC (1) - concatenate and print files in reverse
• TACK (1) - terminfo action checker
• TAIL (1) - output the last part of files
• TAILF (1) - follow the growth of a log file
• TALK (1) - talk
• TALKD (8) - talkd
• TALLY.CONTROL (8) - keep track of newgroup creation and deletions.
• TALLY.UNWANTED (8) - keep track of unwanted newsgroups.
• TAN (3) - tangent function
• TANGLE (1) - translate WEB to Pascal
• TANH (3) - hyperbolic tangent function
• TAR (1) - The GNU version of the tar archiving utility
• TASKS (3) - Returns information about the tasks running
• TBL (1) - format tables for troff
• TCIC (4) - Databook TCIC-2 PCMCIA controller driver
• TCL (N) - Summary of Tcl language syntax.
• TCLSH (1) - Simple shell containing Tcl interpreter
• TCLVARS (N) - Variables used by Tcl
• TCL_ADDERRORINFO (3) - record information about errors
• TCL_ALLOC (3) - allocate or free heap memory
• TCL_ALLOWEXCEPTIONS (3) - allow all exceptions in next script evaluation
• TCL_APPINIT (3) - perform application-specific initialization
• TCL_ASYNCCREATE (3) - handle asynchronous events
• TCL_BACKGROUNDERROR (3) - report Tcl error that occurred in background processing
• TCL_BACKSLASH (3) - parse a backslash sequence
• TCL_BOOLEANOBJ (3) - manipulate Tcl objects as boolean values
• TCL_CALLWHENDELETED (3) - Arrange for callback when interpreter is deleted
• TCL_COMMANDCOMPLETE (3) - Check for unmatched braces in a Tcl command
• TCL_CONCAT (3) - concatenate a collection of strings
• TCL_CREATECHANNEL (3) - call a procedure when a channel becomes readable or writable
• TCL_CREATECHANNELHANDLER (3) - call a procedure when a channel becomes readable or writable
• TCL_CREATECLOSEHANDLER (3) - arrange for callbacks when channels are closed
• TCL_CREATECOMMAND (3) - implement new commands in C
• TCL_CREATEEVENTSOURCE (3) - Event sources, the event notifier, and the event queue
• TCL_CREATEFILEHANDLER (3) - associate procedure callbacks with files or devices (Unix only)
• TCL_CREATEINTERP (3) - create and delete Tcl command interpreters
• TCL_CREATEMATHFUNC (3) - Define a new math function for expressions
• TCL_CREATEMODALTIMEOUT (3) - special timer for modal operations
• TCL_CREATEOBJCOMMAND (3) - implement new commands in C
• TCL_CREATESLAVE (3) - manage multiple Tcl interpreters, aliases and hidden
• TCL_CREATETIMERHANDLER (3) - call a procedure at a
• TCL_CREATETRACE (3) - arrange for command execution to be traced
• TCL_DETACHPIDS (3) - manage child processes in background
• TCL_DOONEEVENT (3) - wait for events and invoke event handlers
• TCL_DOUBLEOBJ (3) - manipulate Tcl objects as floating-point values
• TCL_DOWHENIDLE (3) - invoke a procedure when there are no pending events
• TCL_DSTRING (3) - manipulate dynamic
• TCL_EVAL (3) - execute Tcl commands
• TCL_EVALOBJ (3) - execute Tcl commands
• TCL_EXIT (3) - end the application (and invoke exit handlers)
• TCL_EXPRLONG (3) - evaluate an expression
• TCL_EXPRLONGOBJ (3) - evaluate an expression
• TCL_FINDEXECUTABLE (3) - identify or return the name of the binary file containing the application
• TCL_GETFILE (3) - procedures to manipulate generic file handles
• TCL_GETINDEXFROMOBJ (3) - lookup string in table of keywords
• TCL_GETINT (3) - convert from string to integer, double, or boolean
• TCL_GETOPENFILE (3) - Get a standard IO File * handle from a channel. (Unix only)
• TCL_GETSTDCHANNEL (3) - procedures for retrieving and replacing the standard channels
• TCL_HASH (3) - procedures to manage hash tables
• TCL_INTERP (3) - client-visible fields of interpreter structures
• TCL_INTOBJ (3) - manipulate Tcl objects as integers
• TCL_LINKVAR (3) - link Tcl variable to C variable
• TCL_LISTOBJ (3) - manipulate Tcl objects as lists
• TCL_MAIN (3) - main program for Tcl-based applications
• TCL_OBJ (3) - manipulate Tcl objects
• TCL_OBJSETVAR2 (3) - manipulate Tcl variables
• TCL_OBJTYPE (3) - manipulate Tcl object types
• TCL_OPENFILECHANNEL (3) - Tcl_OpenFileChannel, Tcl_OpenCommandChannel, Tcl_MakeFileChannel, Tcl_GetChannel, Tcl_RegisterChannel, Tcl_UnregisterChannel, Tcl_Close, Tcl_Read, Tcl_Gets, Tcl_Write, Tcl_Flush, Tcl_Seek, Tcl_Tell, Tcl_Eof, Tcl_InputBlocked,
• TCL_OPENTCPCLIENT (3) - procedures to open channels using TCP sockets
• TCL_PKGREQUIRE (3) - package version control
• TCL_PRESERVE (3) - avoid freeing storage while it's being used
• TCL_PRINTDOUBLE (3) - Convert floating value to string
• TCL_RECORDANDEVAL (3) - save command on history list before evaluating
• TCL_RECORDANDEVALOBJ (3) - save command on history list before evaluating
• TCL_REGEXPMATCH (3) - Pattern matching with regular expressions
• TCL_SETASSOCDATA (3) - manage
• TCL_SETERRNO (3) - manipulate errno to store and retrieve error codes
• TCL_SETRECURSIONLIMIT (3) - set maximum allowable nesting depth in interpreter
• TCL_SETRESULT (3) - manipulate Tcl result
• TCL_SETVAR (3) - manipulate Tcl variables
• TCL_SLEEP (3) - delay execution for a given number of milliseconds
• TCL_SPLITLIST (3) - manipulate Tcl lists
• TCL_SPLITPATH (3) - manipulate platform-dependent file paths
• TCL_STATICPACKAGE (3) - make a statically linked package available via the load command
• TCL_STRINGMATCH (3) - test whether a string matches a pattern
• TCL_STRINGOBJ (3) - manipulate Tcl objects as strings
• TCL_TRACEVAR (3) - monitor accesses to a variable
• TCL_TRANSLATEFILENAME (3) - convert file name to native form and replace tilde with home directory
• TCL_UPVAR (3) - link one variable to another
• TCL_WRONGNUMARGS (3) - generate standard error message for wrong number of arguments
• TCP (4) - TCP protocol.
• TCP (7) - TCP protocol.
• TCPD (8) - access control facility for internet services
• TCPDCHK (8) - tcp wrapper configuration checker
• TCPDMATCH (8) - tcp wrapper oracle
• TCPDUMP (8) - dump traffic on a network
• TCSH (1) - C shell with file name completion and command line editing
• TEE (1) - read from standard input and write to standard output and files
• TELL (N) - Return current access position for an open channel
• TELLDIR (3) - return current location in directory stream.
• TELNET (1) - telnet
• TELNETD (8) - telnetd
• TEMPNAM (3) - create a name for a temporary file
• TERM (5) - format of compiled term file.
• TERM (7) - conventions for naming terminal types
• TERMCAP (5) - terminal capability database
• TERMINFO (5) - terminal capability data base
• TERMIOS (3) - termios, tcgetattr, tcsetattr, tcsendbreak, tcdrain, tcflush, tcflow,
• TEST (1) - check file types and compare values
• TESTACCEL (6) - test the old style blitter functions and vga_ext_set()
• TESTGL (6) - test the vgagl library
• TESTLINEAR (6) - test a linear frame buffer
• TESTPARM (1) - text formatting and typesetting
• TEX (1) - text formatting and typesetting
• TEXCONFIG (1) - configures teTeX
• TEXI2HTML (1) - a Texinfo to HTML converter
• TEXT (N) - Create and manipulate text widgets
• TEXTCONFIG (5) - Configuration file for SVGATextMode
• TFMTODIT (1) - create font files for use with groff -Tdvi
• TFTOPL (1) - convert TeX font metric (tfm) files to property lists
• TFTP (1) - tftp
• TFTPD (8) - tftpd
• TGATOPPM (1) - convert TrueVision Targa file into a portable pixmap
• THREED (6) - The svgalib 3d demo
• THREEDKIT (7) - a set of functions for 3D support.
• THUMBNAIL (1) - create a
• TIDTOHOST (3) - Returns the host of the specified PVM process.
• TIE (1) - merge or apply WEB change files
• TIFF2BW (1) - convert a color
• TIFF2PS (1) - convert a
• TIFFCMP (1) - compare two
• TIFFCP (1) - copy (and possibly convert) a
• TIFFDITHER (1) - convert a greyscale image to bilevel using dithering
• TIFFDUMP (1) - print verbatim information about
• TIFFGT (1) - display an image stored in a
• TIFFINFO (1) - print information about
• TIFFMEDIAN (1) - apply the median cut algorithm to data in a
• TIFFSV (1) - save an image from the framebuffer in a
• TIFFTOPNM (1) - convert a TIFF file into a portable anymap
• TIME (2) - get time in seconds
• TIME (N) - Time the execution of a script
• TIMECONFIG (8) - simple interface for configuring system time parameters
• TIMED (8) - timed
• TIMEDC (8) - timedc
• TIMES (2) - get process times
• TIN (1) - A Usenet newsreader
• TK (N) - Manipulate Tk internal state
• TKERROR (N) - Command invoked to process background errors
• TKILL (1) - Terminate LAM on one node.
• TKNEWSBIFF (1) - pop up a window when news appears
• TKSYSV (8) - a runlevel service editor
• TKVARS (N) - Variables used or set by Tk
• TKWAIT (N) - Wait for variable to change or window to be destroyed
• TK_CANVASPSY (3) - utility procedures for generating Postscript for canvases
• TK_CANVASTEXTINFO (3) - additional information for managing text items in canvases
• TK_CANVASTKWIN (3) - utility procedures for canvas type managers
• TK_CHOOSECOLOR (N) - pops up a dialog box for the user to select a color.
• TK_CLEARSELECTION (3) - Deselect a selection
• TK_CLIPBOARDCLEAR (3) - Manage the clipboard
• TK_COMPUTETEXTLAYOUT (3) - routines to measure and display single-font, multi-line,
• TK_CONFIGUREWIDGET (3) - process configuration options for widgets
• TK_CONFIGUREWINDOW (3) - Tk_ConfigureWindow, Tk_MoveWindow, Tk_ResizeWindow, Tk_MoveResizeWindow, Tk_SetWindowBorderWidth, Tk_ChangeWindowAttributes, Tk_SetWindowBackground, Tk_SetWindowBackgroundPixmap, Tk_SetWindowBorder, Tk_SetWindowBorderPixmap, T
• TK_COORDSTOWINDOW (3) - Find window containing a point
• TK_CREATEBINDINGTABLE (3) - invoke scripts in response to X events
• TK_CREATEERRORHANDLER (3) - handle X protocol errors
• TK_CREATEEVENTHANDLER (3) - associate procedure callback with an X event
• TK_CREATEGENERICHANDLER (3) - associate procedure callback with all X events
• TK_CREATEIMAGETYPE (3) - define new kind of image
• TK_CREATEITEMTYPE (3) - define new kind of canvas item
• TK_CREATEPHOTOIMAGEFORMAT (3) - define new file format for photo images
• TK_CREATESELHANDLER (3) - arrange to handle requests for a selection
• TK_CREATEWINDOW (3) - create or delete window
• TK_DELETEIMAGE (3) - Destroy an image.
• TK_DIALOG (N) - Create modal dialog and wait for response
• TK_DRAWFOCUSHIGHLIGHT (3) - draw the traversal highlight ring for a widget
• TK_FINDPHOTO (3) - manipulate the image data stored in a photo image.
• TK_FOCUSNEXT (N) - Utility procedures for managing the input focus.
• TK_FONTID (3) - accessor functions for
• TK_FREEXID (3) - make X resource identifier available for reuse
• TK_GEOMETRYREQUEST (3) - specify desired geometry or internal border for a window
• TK_GET3DBORDER (3) - draw borders with
• TK_GETANCHOR (3) - translate between strings and anchor positions
• TK_GETBITMAP (3) - maintain database of single-plane pixmaps
• TK_GETCAPSTYLE (3) - translate between strings and cap styles
• TK_GETCOLOR (3) - maintain database of colors
• TK_GETCOLORMAP (3) - allocate and free colormaps
• TK_GETCURSOR (3) - maintain database of cursors
• TK_GETFONT (3) - maintain database of fonts
• TK_GETFONTSTRUCT (3) - maintain database of fonts
• TK_GETGC (3) - maintain database of read-only graphics contexts
• TK_GETIMAGE (3) - use an image in a widget
• TK_GETJOINSTYLE (3) - translate between strings and join styles
• TK_GETJUSTIFY (3) - translate between strings and justification styles
• TK_GETOPENFILE (N) - pop up a dialog box for the user to select a file to open or save.
• TK_GETOPTION (3) - retrieve an option from the option database
• TK_GETPIXELS (3) - translate between strings and screen units
• TK_GETPIXMAP (3) - allocate and free pixmaps
• TK_GETRELIEF (3) - translate between strings and relief values
• TK_GETROOTCOORDS (3) - Compute root-window coordinates of window
• TK_GETSCROLLINFO (3) - parse arguments for scrolling commands
• TK_GETSELECTION (3) - retrieve the contents of a selection
• TK_GETUID (3) - convert from string to unique identifier
• TK_GETVISUAL (3) - translate from string to visual
• TK_GETVROOTGEOMETRY (3) - Get location and size of virtual root for window
• TK_HANDLEEVENT (3) - invoke event handlers for window system events
• TK_IDTOWINDOW (3) - Find Tk's window information for an X window
• TK_IMAGECHANGED (3) - notify widgets that image needs to be redrawn
• TK_INIT (3) - add Tk to an interpreter and make a new Tk application.
• TK_INTERNATOM (3) - manage cache of X atoms
• TK_MAIN (3) - main program for Tk-based applications
• TK_MAINLOOP (3) - loop for events until all windows are deleted
• TK_MAINTAINGEOMETRY (3) - maintain geometry of one window relative to another
• TK_MAINWINDOW (3) - find the main window for an application
• TK_MANAGEGEOMETRY (3) - arrange to handle geometry requests for a window
• TK_MAPWINDOW (3) - map or unmap a window
• TK_MEASURECHARS (3) - routines to measure and display simple single-line strings.
• TK_MENUBAR (N) - Obsolete support for menu bars
• TK_MESSAGEBOX (N) - pops up a message window and waits for user response.
• TK_MOVETOPLEVELWINDOW (3) - Adjust the position of a top-level window
• TK_NAME (3) - convert between names and window tokens
• TK_NAMEOFIMAGE (3) - Return name of image.
• TK_OPTIONMENU (N) - Create an option menubutton and its menu
• TK_OWNSELECTION (3) - make a window the owner of the primary selection
• TK_PARSEARGV (3) - process command-line options
• TK_POPUP (N) - Post a popup menu
• TK_QUEUEWINDOWEVENT (3) - Add a window event to the Tcl event queue
• TK_RESTACKWINDOW (3) - Change a window's position in the stacking order
• TK_RESTRICTEVENTS (3) - filter and selectively delay X events
• TK_SETAPPNAME (3) - Set the name of an application for ``send'' commands
• TK_SETCLASS (3) - set or retrieve a window's class
• TK_SETGRID (3) - control the grid for interactive resizing
• TK_SETPALETTE (N) - Modify the Tk color palette
• TK_SETWINDOWVISUAL (3) - change visual characteristics of window
• TK_STRICTMOTIF (3) - Return value of tk_strictMotif variable
• TK_WINDOWID (3) - Tk_WindowId, Tk_Parent, Tk_Display, Tk_DisplayName, Tk_ScreenNumber, Tk_Screen, Tk_X, Tk_Y, Tk_Width, Tk_Height, Tk_Changes, Tk_Attributes, Tk_IsMapped, Tk_IsTopLevel, Tk_ReqWidth, Tk_ReqHeight, Tk_InternalBorderWidth, Tk_Visual, Tk_
• TLOAD (1) - graphic representation of system load average
• TMPFILE (3) - create a temporary file
• TMPNAM (3) - create a name for a temporary file
• TMPWATCH (8) - removes files which haven't been accessed for a period of time
• TOASCII (3) - convert character to ASCII
• TOP (1) - display top CPU processes
• TOPLEVEL (N) - Create and manipulate toplevel widgets
• TOUCH (1) - change file timestamps
• TOUPPER (3) - convert letter to upper or lower case
• TOWCTRANS (3) - wide-character transliteration
• TOWLOWER (3) - convert a wide character to lowercase
• TOWUPPER (3) - convert a wide character to uppercase
• TPING (1) - Send echo messages to LAM nodes.
• TPUT (1) - initialize a terminal or query terminfo database
• TR (1) - translate or delete characters
• TRACE (N) - Monitor variable accesses
• TRACEPATH (8) - traces path to discovering MTU along this path
• TRACEROUTE (8) - print the route packets take to network host
• TRECV (3) - Receive with timeout.
• TREE (1) - list contents of directories in a tree-like format.
• TRIANGLES (6) - Triangles X widget
• TRN (1) - threaded read news program
• TROFF (1) - format documents
• TROJKA (6) - a game of skill.
• TRROR (2) - Print LAM system error message.
• TRUE (1) - do nothing, successfully
• TRUNCATE (2) - truncate a file to a specified length
• TSEARCH (3) - manage a binary tree
• TSEND (2) - Send and receive LAM transport messages.
• TSET (1) - terminal initialization
• TSORT (1) - perform topological sort
• TTIME (3) - Get LAM timer value in seconds.
• TTY (1) - print the file name of the terminal connected to standard input
• TTY (4) - controlling terminal
• TTYNAME (3) - return name of a terminal
• TTYS (4) - serial terminal lines
• TTYTYPE (5) - terminal device to default terminal type mapping
• TUNE2FS (8) - adjust tunable filesystem parameters on second extended filesystems
• TUNELP (8) - set various parameters for the lp device
• TZFILE (5) - time zone information
• TZSELECT (8) - select a time zone
• TZSET (3) - initialize time conversion information