osf1 man page for intro

intro(7)						 Miscellaneous Information Manual						  intro(7)

NAME
       intro - Introduction to special files

DESCRIPTION
       Section	7  describes  the special files, related driver functions, and networking support available in the system.  In this section of the
       reference pages, the SYNOPSIS heading of each configurable device gives a sample specification for use in constructing a system description
       for  the  config  program.   The  DIAGNOSTICS  heading  lists  messages	that  may  appear  on the console and in the system error log file
       /usr/adm/syserr/syserr.hostname due to errors in device operation.

       Software support for configurable devices comes in two forms.  A hardware device may be supported with a character or block  device  driver
       or, if used within the networking subsystem, may be supported with a network interface driver.

       There  are  some  devices that have fixed input/output space CSR addresses and interrupt vector addresses. There are no address switches or
       jumpers that need to be set up by the customer or Field Service.

       Some reference pages in this section may contain suffixes to allow their files to exist with those of other reference pages having the same
       base name and section number. When used, suffixes are made up of one to four letters. See the man(1) reference page for more information on
       suffixes.

FILES
       /dev/*

RELATED INFORMATION
       Commands: MAKEDEV(8) delim off

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