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NAME

       services - service name data base

DESCRIPTION

       The  file associates official service names and aliases with the port number and protocol the services use.  For each service a single line
       should be present with the following information:

	      <official service name>	<port number/protocol name>   <aliases>

       Port numbers 0 through 1023 are assigned by RFC 1700. This RFC also lists the conventional use of various ports with numbers  greater  than
       1023.

       Aliases	are  other names under which a service is known.  Library routines such as can be invoked with a service alias instead of the ser-
       vice official name.  For example:

       In this example, can be invoked with instead of

       instead of

       Both produce the same results.

       Items are separated by any number of blanks (space or tab characters in any combination).  The port number and protocol name are considered
       a  single  item.   A  is used to separate the port and protocol (for example, A character indicates the beginning of a comment.	Characters
       from the to the end of the line are not interpreted by routines which search the file.

       Service names can contain any printable character other than a white space, newline, or comment	character.   Trailing  blanks  (spaces	or
       tabs) are allowed at the end of a line.

       Not all services listed in this file are available on HP-UX.

EXAMPLES

AUTHOR

       was developed by the University of California, Berkeley.

FILES

SEE ALSO

       getservent(3N).

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