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SERVICES 5 ""
C 5
NAME
services - service name data base
DESCRIPTION
The services file contains information regarding the known services available in the DARPA Internet. For each service a single line should be present with the following information:

10 official service name

.ns

10 port number

.ns

10 protocol name

.ns

10 aliases

Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or tab characters. The port number and protocol name are considered a single item ; a ``/'' is used to separate the port and protocol (e.g. ``512/tcp''). A ``#'' indicates the beginning of a comment; subsequent characters up to the end of the line are not interpreted by the routines which search the file.

Service names may contain any printable character other than a field delimiter, newline, or comment character.

FILES
/etc/services
"SEE ALSO"
getservent(3N)
BUGS
A name server should be used instead of a static file.