Introduction Section 7

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INTRO(7)                     BSD Reference Manual                     INTRO(7)

NAME
     intro - miscellaneous information pages

DESCRIPTION
     This section contains miscellaneous documentation:

     ascii(7)
            The ASCII character set.

     environ(7)
            The user environment.

     hier(7)
            The system filesystem layout.

     hostname(7)
            A description of host name resolution.

     mailaddr(7)
            A description of electronic mail addressing.

     mdoc(7)
            A quick reference guide for the ``-mdoc'' macro package.

     mdoc.samples(7)
            A tutorial sampler for writing BSD manuals using the ``-mdoc''
            macro package.

     operator(7)
            The C language operator precedence and order of evaluation.

     rs-232(7)
            RS-232 signal names and connector configurations.

     In addition, there are several miscellaneous dictionaries and data files
     on the system.

     /usr/share/dict/propernames
            A list of (largely American) proper names.

     /usr/share/dict/web2
            Webster's Second International Dictionary, copyright 1934.

     /usr/share/dict/web2a
            Webster's Second International Dictionary, copyright 1934, supple-
            mental list with hyphenated terms as well as assorted noun and ad-
            verbial phrases.

     /usr/share/dict/words
            A smaller dictionary style wordlist of unknown origin.

     /usr/share/misc/airport
            Three-letter airport codes.

     /usr/share/misc/ascii
            Octal, hexadecimal and decimal ASCII character sets.  See ascii(7)
            for more information.

     /usr/share/misc/birthtoken
            Month-of-birth flowers and stones.

     /usr/share/misc/countrycodes

            ISO 3166 country codes.

     /usr/share/misc/flowers
            The secret language of flowers.

     /usr/share/misc/inter.phone
            International area codes, indexed by city.  Up-to-date information
            can be obtained from the Web in various locations.

     /usr/share/misc/man.template
            A template for manual pages, using the historic ``-man'' macro
            package.

     /usr/share/misc/mdoc.template
            A template for manual pages, using the Berkeley ``-mdoc'' macro
            package.

     /usr/share/misc/na.phone
            North American area codes, indexed by city.  Up-to-date informa-
            tion can be obtained from the Web in various locations.

     /usr/share/misc/operator
            C operator precedence and order of evaluation.  See operator(7)
            for more information.

     /usr/share/misc/zipcodes
            United States Postal Service Zipcodes, indexed by city.  Up-to-
            date information can be obtained from the Postal Service Web in-
            formation at ``http://www.usps.gov''.

EXAMPLES
     To get Boise's ZIP codes:

           grep Boise /usr/share/misc/zipcodes

     To discover the state in which area code 207 resides:

           grep 207 /usr/share/misc/na.phone

     To find out what flower to send to communicate to your beloved the
     thought ``I change but in death'':

           grep death /usr/share/misc/flowers

BUGS
     The area codes and ZIP codes are always out of date.

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