NAME

intro — introduction to file formats

DESCRIPTION

This section contains information about the file formats which comprise most data structures in the BSD environment, including:

• ascii(7) configuration and resource files
• system binary file and stream structures
• composition of database files

FILES

/etc/

base system software configuration files

/usr/local/etc/

locally installed software configuration files

SEE ALSO

apropos(1), intro(1), hier(7), intro(8)

HISTORY

The intro(5) manual page first appeared in FreeBSD 2.2.