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wprintf(3) -- formatted wide character output conversion
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The wprintf family of functions is the wide-character equivalent of the printf family of functions. It performs formatted output of wide characters. The wprintf and vwprintf functions perform wide cha... |
xdr(3) -- library routines for external data representation
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__setfpucw(3) -- set fpu control word on i386 architecture (obsolete)
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__setfpucw transfers control_word to the registers of the fpu (floating point unit) on i386 architecture. This was used to control floating point precision, rounding and floating point exceptions. |
console(4) -- console terminal and virtual consoles
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A Linux system has up to 63 virtual consoles (character devices with major number 4 and minor number 1 to 63), usually called /dev/ttyn with 1 <= n <= 63. The current console is also addressed by /dev... |
console_codes(4) -- Linux console escape and control sequences
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The Linux console implements a large subset of the VT102 and ECMA-48/ISO 6429/ANSI X3.64 terminal controls, plus certain privatemode sequences for changing the color palette, character-set mapping, et... |
console_ioctl(4) -- ioctl's for console terminal and virtual consoles
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WARNING: If you use the following information you are going to burn yourself. WARNING: ioctl's are undocumented Linux internals, liable to be changed without warning. Use POSIX functions. The followi... |
console_ioctls(4) -- 0console ioctl's- ioctl's for console terminal and virtual consoles
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WARNING: If you use the following information you are going to burn yourself. WARNING: ioctl's are undocumented Linux internals, liable to be changed without warning. Use POSIX functions where availa... |
dsp56k(4) -- DSP56001 interface device
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The Motorola DSP56001 is a fully programmable 24-bit digital signal processor found in Atari Falcon030-compatible computers. The dsp56k special file is used to control the DSP56001, and to send and re... |
fd(4) -- floppy disk device
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fd special files access the floppy disk drives in raw mode. The following ioctl(2) calls are supported by fd devices: FDCLRPRM [Toc] [Back] clears the media information of a drive (geometry of d... |
fifo(4) -- first-in first-out special file, named pipe
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A FIFO special file (a named pipe) is similar to a pipe, except that it is accessed as part of the file system. It can be opened by multiple processes for reading or writing. When processes are exchan... |
full(4) -- always full device
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File /dev/full has major device number 1 and minor device number 7. Writes to the /dev/full device will fail with an ENOSPC error. Reads from the /dev/full device will return \0 characters. Seeks on ... |
hd(4) -- MFM/IDE hard disk devices
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The hd* devices are block devices to access MFM/IDE hard disk drives in raw mode. The master drive on the primary IDE controller (major device number 3) is hda; the slave drive is hdb. The master driv... |
initrd(4) -- boot loader initialized RAM disk
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The special file /dev/initrd is a read-only block device. Device /dev/initrd is a RAM disk that is initialized (e.g. loaded) by the boot loader before the kernel is started. The kernel then can use th... |