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| 2 | <title>Contents</title>
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| 3 |
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[53ad30a] | 4 | <para>The Util-linux package contains the agetty, arch,
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| 5 | blockdev, cal, cfdisk, chkdupexe, col, colcrt, colrm, column,
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| 6 | ctrlaltdel, cytune, ddate, dmesg, elvtune, fdformat, fdisk,
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| 7 | fsck.minix, getopt, hexdump, hwclock, ipcrm, ipcs,
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[3c26a34] | 8 | kill, logger, look, losetup,
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[53ad30a] | 9 | mcookie, mkfs, mkfs.bfs, mkfs.minix, mkswap, more, mount, namei,
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| 10 | umount, ramsize, rdev, readprofile, rename, renice, rev, rootflags,
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| 11 | script, setfdprm, setsid, setterm, sfdisk, swapdev, swapoff, swapon,
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| 12 | tunelp, ul, vidmode, whereis, and write programs.</para>
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[6370fa6] | 13 |
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| 14 | </sect2>
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| 15 |
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| 16 | <sect2>
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| 17 | <title>Description</title>
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| 18 |
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[53ad30a] | 19 | <sect3><title>agetty</title>
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[b822811] | 20 | <para>agetty opens a tty port, prompts for a login name and invokes the
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[53ad30a] | 21 | /bin/login command.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 22 |
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[53ad30a] | 23 | <sect3><title>arch</title>
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| 24 | <para>arch prints the machine architecture.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 25 |
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[53ad30a] | 26 | <sect3><title>blockdev</title>
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[b822811] | 27 | <para>blockdev allows to call block device ioctls from the command
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[53ad30a] | 28 | line</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 29 |
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[53ad30a] | 30 | <sect3><title>cal</title>
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| 31 | <para>cal displays a simple calender.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 32 |
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[53ad30a] | 33 | <sect3><title>cfdisk</title>
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| 34 | <para>cfdisk is an libncurses based disk partition table
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| 35 | manipulator.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 36 |
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[53ad30a] | 37 | <sect3><title>chkdupexe</title>
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| 38 | <para>chkdupexe finds duplicate executables.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 39 |
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[53ad30a] | 40 | <sect3><title>col</title>
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| 41 | <para>col filters reverse line feeds from input.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 42 |
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[53ad30a] | 43 | <sect3><title>colcrt</title>
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| 44 | <para>colcrt filters nroff output for CRT previewing.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 45 |
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[53ad30a] | 46 | <sect3><title>colrm</title>
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| 47 | <para>colrm removes columns from a file.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 48 |
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[53ad30a] | 49 | <sect3><title>column</title>
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| 50 | <para>column columnates lists.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 51 |
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[53ad30a] | 52 | <sect3><title>ctrlaltdel</title>
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| 53 | <para>ctrlaltdel sets the function of the CTRL+ALT+DEL key combination (hard
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| 54 | or soft reset).</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 55 |
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[53ad30a] | 56 | <sect3><title>cytune</title>
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| 57 | <para>cytune queries and modifies the interruption threshold for the Cyclades
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| 58 | driver.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 59 |
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[53ad30a] | 60 | <sect3><title>ddate</title>
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| 61 | <para>ddate converts Gregorian dates to Discordian dates.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 62 |
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[53ad30a] | 63 | <sect3><title>dmesg</title>
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| 64 | <para>dmesg is used to examine or control the kernel ring buffer (boot
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| 65 | messages from the kernel).</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 66 |
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[53ad30a] | 67 | <sect3><title>elvtune</title>
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| 68 | <para>elvtune allows to tune the I/O elevator per block device queue
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| 69 | basis.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 70 |
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[53ad30a] | 71 | <sect3><title>fdformat</title>
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| 72 | <para>fdformat low-level formats a floppy disk.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 73 |
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[53ad30a] | 74 | <sect3><title>fdisk</title>
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| 75 | <para>fdisk is a disk partition table manipulator.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 76 |
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[53ad30a] | 77 | <sect3><title>fsck.minix</title>
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[b822811] | 78 | <para>fsck.minix performs a consistency check for the Linux MINIX
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[53ad30a] | 79 | filesystem.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 80 |
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[53ad30a] | 81 | <sect3><title>getopt</title>
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| 82 | <para>getops parses command options the same way as the getopt C
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| 83 | command.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 84 |
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[53ad30a] | 85 | <sect3><title>hexdump</title>
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| 86 | <para>hexdump displays specified files, or standard input, in a user specified
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| 87 | format (ascii, decimal, hexadecimal, octal).</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 88 |
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[53ad30a] | 89 | <sect3><title>hwclock</title>
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[b822811] | 90 | <para>hwclock queries and sets the hardware clock (Also called the RTC or BIOS
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[53ad30a] | 91 | clock).</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 92 |
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[53ad30a] | 93 | <sect3><title>ipcrm</title>
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| 94 | <para>ipcrm removes a specified resource.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 95 |
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[53ad30a] | 96 | <sect3><title>ipcs</title>
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| 97 | <para>ipcs provides information on IPC facilities.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 98 |
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[53ad30a] | 99 | <sect3><title>kill</title>
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| 100 | <para>kill sends a specified signal to the specified process.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 101 |
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[53ad30a] | 102 | <sect3><title>logger</title>
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| 103 | <para>logger makes entries in the system log.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 104 |
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[53ad30a] | 105 | <sect3><title>look</title>
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| 106 | <para>look displays lines beginning with a given string.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 107 |
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[53ad30a] | 108 | <sect3><title>losetup</title>
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| 109 | <para>losetup sets up and controls loop devices.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 110 |
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[53ad30a] | 111 | <sect3><title>mcookie</title>
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| 112 | <para>mcookie generates magic cookies for xauth.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 113 |
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[53ad30a] | 114 | <sect3><title>mkfs</title>
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[b822811] | 115 | <para>mkfs builds a Linux filesystem on a device, usually a harddisk
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[53ad30a] | 116 | partition.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 117 |
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[53ad30a] | 118 | <sect3><title>mkfs.bfs</title>
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[b822811] | 119 | <para>mkfs.bfs creates a SCO bfs file system on a device, usually a harddisk
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[53ad30a] | 120 | partition.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 121 |
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[53ad30a] | 122 | <sect3><title>mkfs.minix</title>
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[b822811] | 123 | <para>mkfs.minix creates a Linux MINIX filesystem on a device, usually a
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[53ad30a] | 124 | harddisk partition.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 125 |
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[53ad30a] | 126 | <sect3><title>mkswap</title>
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| 127 | <para>mkswap sets up a Linux swap area on a device or in a file.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 128 |
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[53ad30a] | 129 | <sect3><title>more</title>
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| 130 | <para>more is a filter for paging through text one screen full at a
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| 131 | time.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 132 |
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[53ad30a] | 133 | <sect3><title>mount</title>
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| 134 | <para>mount mounts a filesystem from a device to a directory (mount
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| 135 | point).</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 136 |
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[53ad30a] | 137 | <sect3><title>namei</title>
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| 138 | <para>namei follows a pathname until a terminal point is found.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 139 |
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[53ad30a] | 140 | <sect3><title>umount</title>
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| 141 | <para>umount unmounts a mounted filesystem.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 142 |
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[53ad30a] | 143 | <sect3><title>ramsize</title>
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| 144 | <para>ramsize queries and sets RAM disk size.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 145 |
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[53ad30a] | 146 | <sect3><title>rdev</title>
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| 147 | <para>rdev queries and sets image root device, swap device, RAM disk size, or
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| 148 | video mode.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 149 |
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[53ad30a] | 150 | <sect3><title>readprofile</title>
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| 151 | <para>readprofile reads kernel profiling information.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 152 |
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[53ad30a] | 153 | <sect3><title>rename</title>
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| 154 | <para>rename renames files.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 155 |
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[53ad30a] | 156 | <sect3><title>renice</title>
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| 157 | <para>renice alters priority of running processes.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 158 |
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[53ad30a] | 159 | <sect3><title>rev</title>
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| 160 | <para>rev reverses lines of a file.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 161 |
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[53ad30a] | 162 | <sect3><title>rootflags</title>
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| 163 | <para>rootflags queries and sets extra information used when mounting
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| 164 | root.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 165 |
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[53ad30a] | 166 | <sect3><title>script</title>
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| 167 | <para>script makes typescript of terminal session.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 168 |
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[53ad30a] | 169 | <sect3><title>setfdprm</title>
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| 170 | <para>setfdprm sets user-provides floppy disk parameters.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 171 |
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[53ad30a] | 172 | <sect3><title>setsid</title>
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| 173 | <para>setsid runs programs in a new session.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 174 |
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[53ad30a] | 175 | <sect3><title>setterm</title>
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| 176 | <para>setterm sets terminal attributes.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 177 |
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[53ad30a] | 178 | <sect3><title>sfdisk</title>
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| 179 | <para>sfdisk is a disk partition table manipulator.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 180 |
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[53ad30a] | 181 | <sect3><title>swapdev</title>
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| 182 | <para>swapdev queries and sets swap device.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 183 |
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[53ad30a] | 184 | <sect3><title>swapoff</title>
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| 185 | <para>swapoff disables devices and files for paging and swapping.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 186 |
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[53ad30a] | 187 | <sect3><title>swapon</title>
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| 188 | <para>swapon enables devices and files for paging and swapping.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 189 |
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[53ad30a] | 190 | <sect3><title>tunelp</title>
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| 191 | <para>tunelp sets various parameters for the LP device.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 192 |
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[53ad30a] | 193 | <sect3><title>ul</title>
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[b822811] | 194 | <para>ul reads a file and translates occurrences of underscores to the sequence
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[53ad30a] | 195 | which indicates underlining for the terminal in use.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 196 |
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[53ad30a] | 197 | <sect3><title>vidmode</title>
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| 198 | <para>vidmode queries and sets the video mode.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 199 |
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[53ad30a] | 200 | <sect3><title>whereis</title>
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| 201 | <para>whereis locates a binary, source and manual page for a
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| 202 | command.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 203 |
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[53ad30a] | 204 | <sect3><title>write</title>
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| 205 | <para>write sends a message to another user.</para></sect3>
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[6370fa6] | 206 |
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| 207 | </sect2>
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| 208 |
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