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NAME

6       Intro, intro - introduction to miscellany
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DESCRIPTION

9       Among the topics presented in this section are:
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11       Standards       The  POSIX  (IEEE)  Standards and the X/Open Specifica‐
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15       Environments    The user environment (environ), the subset of the  user
16                       environment  that depends on language and cultural con‐
17                       ventions (locale), the large file compilation  environ‐
18                       ment  (lfcompile),  and  the  transitional  compilation
19                       environment (lfcompile64) are described.
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22       Macros          The macros to format Reference Manual  pages  (man  and
23                       mansun)  as  well  as other text format macros (me, mm,
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27       Characters      Tables of character sets (ascii, charmap, eqnchar,  and
28                       iconv),  file format notation (formats), file name pat‐
29                       tern matching (fnmatch), and regular expressions (regex
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

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50       in the SunOS Reference Manual, from  IEEE  Std  1003.1,  2004  Edition,
51       Standard for Information Technology -- Portable Operating System Inter‐
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