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1.1     ! root        1: .\"    @(#)intro.1     6.1 (Berkeley) 4/29/85
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        !             3: .TH INTRO 1 "April 29, 1985"
        !             4: .AT 3
        !             5: .SH NAME
        !             6: intro \- introduction to commands
        !             7: .SH DESCRIPTION
        !             8: This section describes publicly accessible commands in alphabetic order.
        !             9: Certain distinctions of purpose are made in the headings:
        !            10: .TP
        !            11: (1)
        !            12: Commands of general utility.
        !            13: .TP
        !            14: (1C)
        !            15: Commands for communication with other systems.
        !            16: .TP
        !            17: (1G)
        !            18: Commands used primarily for graphics and computer-aided design.
        !            19: .PP
        !            20: N.B.: Commands related to system maintenance used to appear in
        !            21: section 1 manual pages and were distinguished by (1M) at the top of the
        !            22: page.  These manual pages now appear in section 8.
        !            23: .SH SEE ALSO
        !            24: Section (6) for computer games.
        !            25: .PP
        !            26: .I How to get started,
        !            27: in the Introduction.
        !            28: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
        !            29: Upon termination each command returns two bytes of status,
        !            30: one supplied by the system giving the cause for
        !            31: termination, and (in the case of `normal' termination)
        !            32: one supplied by the program, see
        !            33: .I wait
        !            34: and
        !            35: .IR exit (2).
        !            36: The former byte is 0 for normal termination, the latter
        !            37: is customarily 0 for successful execution, nonzero
        !            38: to indicate troubles such as erroneous parameters, bad or inaccessible data,
        !            39: or other inability to cope with the task at hand.
        !            40: It is called variously `exit code', `exit status' or
        !            41: `return code', and is described only where special conventions are involved.

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