*nix Documentation Project
·  Home
 +   man pages
·  Linux HOWTOs
·  FreeBSD Tips
·  *niX Forums

  Home              

      The *nix documentation project is meant to provide online searchable documentation for Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, HP-UX, Tru64 and other Unix like operating systems.

      Currently hosting over 25000 manual pages, over 200 Linux Howtos, over 100 FreeBSD tips and a friendly comunity forum where your questions will be answered.

Random man page:  tar(4) -- format of tar tape archive
The header structure produced by tar (see tar(1)) is as follows (the array size defined by the constants is shown on the right): struct { char name[NAMSIZ]; (100) char mode[MODE_SZ]; (8) char uid[UID_SZ]; (8) char gid[GID_SZ]; (8) char size[SIZE_SZ]; (12) char mtime[MTIME_SZ]; (12) char chksum[CHKSUM_SZ]; (8) char typeflag; char linkname[NAMSIZ]; (100) char magic[MAGIC_SZ]; (6) char version[VERSIO...
FreeBSD Tip Of the Day View all tips
If you are in the C shell and have just installed a new program, you won't
be able to run it unless you first type "rehash".
		-- Dru 
ChangeLog:
[06/07/2005]: Added man pages for IRIX
[26/02/2005]: Added man pages for HP-UX 11i
[16/02/2005]:Added FreeBSD Tips from freebsd-tips fortune database. Now you can search the tips, comment on them and add new ones.
[06/02/2005]: Added Linux HowTos section
[27/01/2005]:Added a forum where users can post questions /answers , and talk about *nix .
Copyright © 2004-2005 DeniX Solutions SRL
newsletter delivery service