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1.1       root        1: .TH INTRO 1
                      2: .SH NAME
                      3: intro \- introduction to commands
                      4: .SH DESCRIPTION
                      5: This section describes publicly accessible commands
                      6: in alphabetic order.
                      7: .PP
                      8: The name of a particular machine at the head of the
                      9: page means that the command lives there and not necessarily
                     10: elsewhere.
                     11: `Local' means the same, without being specific about where.
                     12: .SH SEE ALSO
                     13: Section (7) for databases.
                     14: .br
                     15: Section (8) for `hidden' commands for booting, maintenance, etc.
                     16: .br
                     17: Section (9) for commands that involve the Teletype 5620 terminal.
                     18: .br
                     19: .I How to get started,
                     20: in the Introduction.
                     21: .SH DIAGNOSTICS
                     22: Upon termination each command returns two bytes of status,
                     23: one supplied by the system giving the cause for
                     24: termination, and (in the case of `normal' termination)
                     25: one supplied by the program;
                     26: see
                     27: .IR exit (2).
                     28: The former byte is 0 for normal termination, the latter
                     29: is customarily 0 for successful execution, nonzero
                     30: to indicate troubles such as erroneous parameters, bad or inaccessible data,
                     31: or other inability to cope with the task at hand.
                     32: It is called variously `exit code', `exit status' or
                     33: `return code', and is described only where special
                     34: conventions are involved.

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