Intro(5)						Standards, Environments, and Macros						  Intro(5)

NAME

       Intro, intro - introduction to miscellany

DESCRIPTION

       Among the topics presented in this section are:

       Standards       The POSIX (IEEE) Standards and the X/Open Specifications are described on the standards page.

       Environments    The  user  environment  (environ),  the	subset	of  the user environment that depends on language and cultural conventions
		       (locale), the large file compilation environment (lfcompile), and the transitional  compilation	environment  (lfcompile64)
		       are described.

       Macros	       The  macros  to	format	Reference  Manual  pages (man and mansun) as well as other text format macros (me, mm, and ms) are
		       described.

       Characters      Tables of character sets (ascii, charmap, eqnchar, and iconv), file format notation (formats), file name  pattern  matching
		       (fnmatch), and regular expressions (regex and regexp) are presented.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

       Sun Microsystems, Inc. gratefully acknowledges The Open Group for permission to reproduce portions of its copyrighted documentation. Origi-
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       The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers and The Open Group, have given us permission to reprint portions of their	documenta-
       tion.

       In the following statement, the phrase ``this text'' refers to portions of the system documentation.

       Portions  of  this  text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form in the SunOS Reference Manual, from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2004 Edition,
       Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open Group Base Specifications Issue  6,  Copyright
       (C)  2001-2004  by  the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open Group.  In the event of any discrepancy between
       these versions and the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard is  the	referee  document.
       The original Standard can be obtained online at http://www.opengroup.org/unix/online.html.

       This notice shall appear on any product containing this material.

SunOS 5.11							    17 Nov 2008 							  Intro(5)