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And "ni" has been documented...
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Tip revision: 6f2a26d42be169720221fd21426c641c3aa0b58f authored by Fred Drake on 06 October 1997, 21:53:50 UTC
And "ni" has been documented...
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libsomeos.tex 
\chapter{Optional Operating System Services}

The modules described in this chapter provide interfaces to operating
system features that are available on selected operating systems only.
The interfaces are generally modelled after the \UNIX{} or C
interfaces but they are available on some other systems as well
(e.g. Windows or NT).  Here's an overview:

\begin{description}

\item[signal]
--- Set handlers for asynchronous events.

\item[socket]
--- Low-level networking interface.

\item[select]
--- Wait for I/O completion on multiple streams.

\item[thread]
--- Create multiple threads of control within one namespace.

\item[anydbm]
--- Generic interface to DBM-style database modules.

\item[whichdbm]
--- Guess which DBM-style module created a given database.

\item[zlib]
\item[gzip]
--- Compression and decompression compatible with the
\code{gzip} program (zlib is the low-level interface, gzip the
high-level one).

\end{description}
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