></H3
><P
>The following directories, or symbolic links to directories,
must be in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr/share</TT
></P
><DIV
CLASS="INFORMALTABLE"
><P
></P
><A
NAME="AEN1573"
></A
><TABLE
BORDER="0"
FRAME="void"
CLASS="CALSTABLE"
><COL><COL><THEAD
><TR
><TH
>Directory</TH
><TH
>Description</TH
></TR
></THEAD
><TBODY
><TR
><TD
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>man</TT
></TD
><TD
>Online manuals</TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>misc</TT
></TD
><TD
>Miscellaneous architecture-independent data</TD
></TR
></TBODY
></TABLE
><P
></P
></DIV
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECTION"
><HR><H3
CLASS="SECTION"
><A
NAME="SPECIFICOPTIONS15"
>Specific Options</A
></H3
><P
>The following directories, or symbolic links to directories, must be in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr/share</TT
>, if the corresponding
subsystem is installed:</P
><DIV
CLASS="INFORMALTABLE"
><P
></P
><A
NAME="AEN1592"
></A
><TABLE
BORDER="0"
FRAME="void"
CLASS="CALSTABLE"
><COL><COL><THEAD
><TR
><TH
>Directory</TH
><TH
>Description</TH
></TR
></THEAD
><TBODY
><TR
><TD
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>dict</TT
></TD
><TD
>Word lists (optional)</TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>doc</TT
></TD
><TD
>Miscellaneous documentation (optional)</TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>games</TT
></TD
><TD
>Static data files for /usr/games (optional)</TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>info</TT
></TD
><TD
>GNU Info system s primary directory (optional)</TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>locale</TT
></TD
><TD
>Locale information (optional)</TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>nls</TT
></TD
><TD
>Message catalogs for Native language support (optional)</TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>sgml</TT
></TD
><TD
>SGML data (optional)</TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>terminfo</TT
></TD
><TD
>Directories for terminfo database (optional)</TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>tmac</TT
></TD
><TD
>troff macros not distributed with groff (optional)</TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>xml</TT
></TD
><TD
>XML data (optional)</TD
></TR
><TR
><TD
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>zoneinfo</TT
></TD
><TD
>Timezone information and configuration (optional)</TD
></TR
></TBODY
></TABLE
><P
></P
></DIV
><P
>It is recommended that application-specific,
architecture-independent directories be placed here. Such directories
include <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>groff</B
>, <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>perl</B
>,
<B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>ghostscript</B
>, <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>texmf</B
>, and
<B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>kbd</B
> (Linux) or <B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>syscons</B
>
(BSD). They may, however, be placed in <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr/lib</TT
>
for backwards compatibility, at the distributor's discretion.
Similarly, a <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr/lib/games</TT
> hierarchy may be used
in addition to the <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr/share/games</TT
> hierarchy if
the distributor wishes to place some game data there.</P
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECTION"
><HR><H3
CLASS="SECTION"
><A
NAME="USRSHAREDICTWORDLISTS"
>/usr/share/dict : Word lists (optional)</A
></H3
><DIV
CLASS="SECTION"
><H4
CLASS="SECTION"
><A
NAME="PURPOSE27"
>Purpose</A
></H4
><P
>This directory is the home for word lists on the system;
Traditionally this directory contains only the English
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>words</TT
> file, which is used by
<B
CLASS="COMMAND"
>look(1)</B
> and various spelling programs.
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>words</TT
> may use either American or British
spelling.</P
><DIV
CLASS="TIP"
><P
></P
><TABLE
CLASS="TIP"
WIDTH="100%"
BORDER="0"
><TR
><TD
WIDTH="25"
ALIGN="CENTER"
VALIGN="TOP"
><IMG
SRC="tip.gif"
HSPACE="5"
ALT="Tip"></TD
><TH
ALIGN="LEFT"
VALIGN="CENTER"
><B
>Rationale</B
></TH
></TR
><TR
><TD
> </TD
><TD
ALIGN="LEFT"
VALIGN="TOP"
><P
>The reason that only word lists are located here is that they
are the only files common to all spell checkers.</P
></TD
></TR
></TABLE
></DIV
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECTION"
><HR><H4
CLASS="SECTION"
><A
NAME="SPECIFICOPTIONS16"
>Specific Options</A
></H4
><P
>The following files, or symbolic links to files, must be in
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr/share/dict</TT
>, if the corresponding subsystem
is installed:</P
><DIV
CLASS="INFORMALTABLE"
><P
></P
><A
NAME="AEN1668"
></A
><TABLE
BORDER="0"
FRAME="void"
CLASS="CALSTABLE"
><COL><COL><THEAD
><TR
><TH
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>File</TT
></TH
><TH
>Description</TH
></TR
></THEAD
><TBODY
><TR
><TD
><TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>words</TT
></TD
><TD
>List of English words (optional)</TD
></TR
></TBODY
></TABLE
><P
></P
></DIV
><P
>Sites that require both American and British spelling may link
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>words</TT
> to
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>­/usr/share/dict/american-english</TT
> or
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>­/usr/share/dict/british-english</TT
>.</P
><P
>Word lists for other languages may be added using the English
name for that language, e.g.,
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr/share/dict/french</TT
>,
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr/share/dict/danish</TT
>, etc. These should, if
possible, use an ISO 8859 character set which is appropriate for the
language in question; if possible the Latin1 (ISO 8859-1) character
set should be used (this is often not possible).</P
><P
>Other word lists must be included here, if present.</P
></DIV
></DIV
><DIV
CLASS="SECTION"
><HR><H3
CLASS="SECTION"
><A
NAME="USRSHAREMANMANUALPAGES"
>/usr/share/man : Manual pages</A
></H3
><DIV
CLASS="SECTION"
><H4
CLASS="SECTION"
><A
NAME="PURPOSE28"
>Purpose</A
></H4
><P
>This section details the organization for manual pages
throughout the system, including <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr/share/man</TT
>.
Also refer to the section on
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/var/cache/man</TT
>.</P
><P
>The primary <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
><mandir></TT
> of the system is
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr/share/man</TT
>.
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr/share/man</TT
> contains manual information for
commands and data under the <TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/</TT
> and
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
>/usr</TT
> filesystems.
<A
NAME="AEN1701"
HREF="#FTN.AEN1701"
><SPAN
CLASS="footnote"
>[31]</SPAN
></A
></P
><P
>Manual pages are stored in
<TT
CLASS="FILENAME"
><mandir>/<locale>/man<section>/<arch></TT
>.
An explanation of <TT