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| acct File Format | Provides the accounting file format for each process. |
| ar File Format (Big) | Describes the default ar library archive format for AIX 4.3. |
| ar File Format (Small) | Describes the small indexed archive file format, in use prior to AIX 4.3. |
| audit File Format | Describes the auditing data structures. |
| bootptab File Format | Default configuration database for the Internet Boot Protocol server (bootpd). |
| Character Set
Description (charmap) Source File Format |
Defines character symbols as character encodings. |
| core File Format | Contains an image of a process at the time of an error. |
| cpio File Format | Describes the copy in/out (cpio) archive file. |
| eqnchar File Format | Contains special character definitions for the eqn and neqn commands. |
| hty_config File Format | Specifies the number of htys to configure on a Network Terminal Accelerator adapter. |
| lastlog File Format | Defines the last login attributes for users. |
| LC_COLLATE
Category for the Locale Definition Source File Format |
Defines character or string collation information. |
| LC_CTYPE Category
for the Locale Definition Source File Format |
Defines character classification, case conversion, and other character attributes. |
| LC_MESSAGES
Category for the Locale Definition Source File Format |
Defines the format for affirmative and negative system responses. |
| LC_MONETARY
Category for the Locale Definition Source File Format |
Defines rules and symbols for formatting monetary numeric information. |
| LC_NUMERIC
Category for the Locale Definition Source File Format |
Defines rules and symbols for formatting non-monetary numeric information. |
| LC_TIME Category for
the Locale Definition Source File Format |
Defines rules and symbols for formatting time and date information. |
| Locale Definition Source File Format | Contains one or more categories that describe a locale. |
| Locale Method Source File Format | Contains one or more categories that describe a locale. |
| magic File Format | Defines file types. |
| .mailrc File Format | Sets defaults for the mail command. |
| .mh_alias File Format | Defines aliases. |
| mibs.defs File Format | Provides descriptions of Management Information Base (MIB) variables for the snmpinfo command. |
| nroff and troff Input File Format | Specifies input file format for the nroff and troff commands. |
| nterm File Format | Describes terminal driving tables for the nroff command. |
| profile File Format | Sets the user environment at login time. |
| queuedefs File Format | Specifies the handling of cron daemon events. |
| rc.ntx File Format | Supplies configuration information for the Network Terminal Accelerator adapter card. |
| sccsfile File Format | Describes the format of a Source Code Control System (SCCS) file. |
| setmaps File Format | Defines the text of a code-set map file and a terminal map file. |
| terminfo File | Contains compiled terminfo source files. |
| trcfmt File Format | Stores trace templates. |
| troff File Format | Describes the output language from the troff command. |
| troff Font File Format | Specifies description files for the troff command. |
| UIL File Format | Contains information on the user interface for a widget-based application. |
| utmp, wtmp, failedlogin File Format | Describes formats for user and accounting information. |
| vgrindefs File Format | Contains the language definition database for the vgrind command. |
| WML File Format | Generates variable UIL compiler components. |
| XCOFF (a.out) File Format | Provides for 64-bit object files and executable files. |
| ate.def File Format | Determines default settings for the Asynchronous Terminal Emulation (ATE) program. |
| Dialing Directory File Format for ATE | Lists phone numbers used to establish modem connections. |
| Devices File Format for BNU | Contains information about devices on the local system that can establish a connection to a remote computer using the Basic Networking Utilities (BNU) program. |
| Dialcodes File Format for BNU | Contains the initial digits of telephone numbers used to establish remote connections over a phone line. |
| Dialers File Format for BNU | Lists modems used for Basic Networking Utilities (BNU) remote communications links. |
| Maxuuscheds File Format for BNU | Limits the number of instances of the uusched and uucico daemons that can run simultaneously. |
| Maxuuxqts File Format for BNU | Limits the number of instances of the BNU uuxqt daemon that can run simultaneously on the local system. |
| Permissions File Format for BNU | Specifies BNU permissions for remote systems that call or are called by the local system. |
| Poll File Format for BNU | Specifies when the BNU program should poll remote systems. |
| Systems File Format for BNU | Lists and describes remote systems accessible to a local system, using the Basic Networking Utilities (BNU). |
| phones File Format for tip | Describes connections used by the tip command to contact remote systems. |
| remote File Format for tip | Describes remote systems contacted by the tip command. |
| .tiprc File Format for tip | Provides initial settings of variables for the tip command. |
| .3270keys File Format for TCP/IP | Defines keyboard mapping and colors for the tn and telnet command. |
| DOMAIN Cache File Format File Format for TCP/IP | Defines the root name server or servers for a DOMAIN name server host. |
| DOMAIN Data File Format for TCP/IP | Stores name resolution information for the named daemon. |
| DOMAIN Local Data File Format for TCP/IP | Defines the local loopback information for the named daemon on the name server host. |
| DOMAIN Reverse Data File Format for TCP/IP | Stores reverse name resolution information for the named daemon. |
| ftpusers File Format for TCP/IP | Specifies local user names that cannot be used by remote FTP clients. |
| gated.conf File Format for TCP/IP | Contains configuration information for the gated daemon. |
| gateways File Format for TCP/IP | Specifies Internet routing information to the routed daemon on a network. |
| hosts File Format for TCP/IP | Defines the Internet Protocol (IP) name and address of the local host and specifies the names and addresses of remote hosts. |
| hosts.equiv File Format for TCP/IP | Specifies remote systems that can execute commands on the local system. |
| hosts.lpd File Format for TCP/IP | Specifies remote hosts that can print on the local host. |
| inetd.conf File Format for TCP/IP | Defines how the inetd daemon handles Internet service requests. |
| map3270 File Format for TCP/IP | Defines keyboard mapping and colors for the tn3270 command. |
| named.conf File Format for TCP/IP | Defines the configuration and behavior of the named daemon. |
| .netrc File Format for TCP/IP | Specifies automatic login information for the ftp and rexec commands. |
| networks File Format for TCP/IP | Contains network name information. |
| protocols File Format for TCP/IP | Defines the Internet protocols used on the local host. |
| rc.net File Format for TCP/IP | Defines host configuration for network interfaces, host name, default gateway, and static routes. |
| resolv.conf File Format for TCP/IP | Defines Domain Name Protocol (DOMAIN) name-server information for local resolver routines. |
| .rhosts File Format for TCP/IP | Specifies remote users that can use a local user account on a network. |
| services File Format for TCP/IP | Defines the sockets and protocols used for Internet services. |
| Standard Resource Record Format for TCP/IP | Defines the format of lines in the named data files. |
| telnet.conf File Format for TCP/IP | Translates a client's terminal-type strings into terminfo file entries. |
| UIL File Format | Contains information on the user interface for a widget-based application. |
| WML File Format | Generates variable UIL compiler components. |
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