intro(5)

intro5

Introduction to file formats

Overview

The manual pages in section 5 contain information related to file formats, including:

  • ASCII configuration and resource files

  • system binary file structures

  • composition of database files

Releases

56 releases since OpenBSD 2.6; the text changed 7 times.

  1. 2.6
  2. 2.7
  3. 2.8–2.9
  4. 3.0–3.3
  5. 3.4–4.1
  6. 4.2–5.4
  7. 5.5–6.3
  8. 6.4–8.0

History

An intro manual for section 5 appeared in OpenBSD 2.5.

From man 8.0-current-20261101 in OpenBSD 8.0-current (2026-11-01). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.