3.8: What are the standard manual page chapters?
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This article is from the Apple II GNO FAQ, by Devin Reade with numerous contributions by others.
3.8: What are the standard manual page chapters?
A#3.8: Chapter 1: Commands and Applications
Chapter 2: System Calls
Chapter 3: Library Routines
Chapter 4: Devices
Chapter 5: File Formats
Chapter 6: Games
Chapter 7: Miscellaneous
Chapter 8: System Administration
For GNO, there should be no need to use Chapter n [New Commands],
or Chapter l (ell) [Local Commands], unless (in the latter case)
the manual page is for something that is not to be released to
the GNO community.
Chapter 3F is reserved for Fortran Routines, of which there
are none at this time (due to the lack of a publicly available
Fortran compiler).
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