Linux manual pages Section 4  

Name

intro — introduction to special files

DESCRIPTION

Section 4 of the manual describes special files (devices).

FILES

/dev/* — device files

NOTES

Authors and copyright conditions

Look at the header of the manual page source for the author(s) and copyright conditions. Note that these can be different from page to page!

SEE ALSO

mknod(1), mknod(2), standards(7)

COLOPHON

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  Copyright (c) 1993 Michael Haardt (michaelmoria.de),
    Fri Apr  2 11:32:09 MET DST 1993

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