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.
SEE ALSOman(1)intro(1)intro(2)intro(3)intro(4)intro(6)intro(8)4.2 Berkeley Distribution June 5, 1993 2
