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Annotation of coherent/a/usr/man/COHERENT/mem, revision 1.1.1.1

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                      3: mem                       Device Driver                       mem
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                      8: Physical memory file
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                     11: The special file /dev/mem  allows the physical memory of the host
                     12: computer to be read and  written just like an ordinary file.  The
                     13: location where I/O will occur can be positioned to any valid byte
                     14: address by  a call to  lseek.  Note that ps  and related commands
                     15: use /dev/kmem, which manipulates the kernel's data space.
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                     17: Commands  may examine  or  change addresses  in physical  memory.
                     18: Addresses to use when changing the system itself normally are ob-
                     19: tained from the system load module (/ccoohheerreenntt) name list, so that
                     20: they always reflect the currently running version of the system.
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                     22: ***** Files *****
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                     24: /dev/mem
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                     26: ***** See Also *****
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                     28: core, device drivers, lseek, ps
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                     30: ***** Diagnostics *****
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                     32: On an error, such as nonexistent memory location, mem returns -1.
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