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PROTOCOLS(5) File Formats Manual PROTOCOLS(5) NAME protocols -- protocol name data base DESCRIPTION The protocols file contains information regarding the known protocols used in the DARPA Internet. For each protocol a single line should be present with the following information: official protocol name protocol number aliases Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters. A ``#'' indicates the beginning of a comment; characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by routines which search the file. Protocol names may contain any printable character other than a field delimiter, newline, or comment character. FILES /etc/protocols The protocols file resides in /etc. SEE ALSO getprotoent(3) BUGS A name server should be used instead of a static file. HISTORY The protocols file format appeared in 4.2BSD. FreeBSD 5.5 June 5, 1993 PROTOCOLS(5)
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