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pac | Prepares printer/plotter accounting records. |
pack | Compresses files. |
packf | Compresses the contents of a folder into a file. |
page | Displays continuous text one screen at a time on a display screen. |
pagesize | Displays the system page size. |
panel20 | Diagnoses activity between an HIA and the 5080 Control Unit. |
passwd | Changes a user's password. |
paste | Merges the lines of several files or subsequent lines in one file. |
patch | Applies changes to files. |
pathchk | Check pathnames. |
pax | Extracts, writes, and lists members of archive files; copies files and directory hierarchies. |
pcat | Unpacks files and writes them to standard output. |
pclient | Opens the connection to an Xstation for a specified period of time. |
pcmciastat | Displays the current sockets' status and defined PCMCIA devices. |
pdelay | Enables or reports the availability of delayed login ports. |
pdisable | Disables login ports. |
penable | Enables or reports the availability of login ports. |
pg | Formats files to the display. |
phold | Disables or reports the availability of login ports on hold. |
pic | Preprocesses troff command imput for the purpose of drawing pictures. |
pick | Selects messages by content and creates and modifies sequences. |
ping | Sends an echo request to a network host. |
pioattred | Provides a way to format and edit attributes in a virtual printer. |
piobe | Print job manager for the printer backend. |
pioburst | Generates burst pages (header and trailer pages) for printer output. |
piocnvt | Expands or contracts a predefined definition or virtual printer definition. |
piodigest | Digests attribute values for a virtual printer definition into a memory image and stores the memory image in a file. |
piodmgr | Compacts the Object Data Manager (ODM) database in the /var/spool/lpd/pio/@local/smit directory. |
piofontin | Copies fonts from a multilingual font diskette. |
pioformat | Drives a printer formatter. |
piofquote | Converts certain control characters destined for PostScript printers. |
piolpx | Provides printer backend support for Xstation attached printers. |
piolsvp | Lists virtual printers on a system. |
piomgpdev | Manages printer pseudo-devices. |
piomkapqd | Builds a SMIT dialog to create print queues and printers. |
piomkpq | Creates a printer queue. |
piomsg | Sends a printer backend message to the user. |
pioout | Printer backend's device driver interface program. |
piopredef | Creates a predefined printer data stream definition. |
plotgbe | Plots HP-GL files to a plotter device. |
plotlbe | Plots HP-GL files to a plotter device |
pmctrl | Controls or queries Power Management information. |
pop3d | Starts the Post Office Protocol Version 3 (POP3) server process. This command only applies to AIX Version 4.2.1 or later. |
portmap | Converts RPC program numbers into Internet port numbers. |
portmir | Allows one TTY stream (monitor) to attach to another TTY stream (target) and monitor the user session that is taking place on that stream. This command only applies to AIX Version 4.2.1 and later. |
post | Routes a message. |
pppattachd | Attaches an asynchronous device stream to the PPP (Point to Point Protocol) subsystem. Can be envoked as a daemon or a normal process. |
pppcontrold | Controls startup and management of the PPP (Point to Point Protocol) subsystem. |
pppdial | Establish a asynchronous connection with a remote system for use by the PPP (Point to Point Protocol) subsystem. |
pppstat | Extracts and displays the RAS (Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability) information of the the PPP (Point to Point Protocol) subsystem. This command only applies to AIX Version 4.1.5. |
pr | Writes a file to standard output. |
prctmp | Displays the session record file created by the acctcon1 command. |
prdaily | Formats an ASCII report of the previous day's accounting data. |
prev | Shows the previous message. |
printenv | Displays the values of environment variables. |
printf | Writes formatted output. |
prof | Displays object file profile data. |
proff | Formats text for printers with personal printer data streams. |
prompter | Invokes a prompting editor. |
proto | Constructs a prototype file for a file system. |
prs | Displays a Source Code Control System (SCCS) file. |
prtacct | Formats and displays any total accounting file. |
prtty | Prints to the printer port of the terminal. |
ps | Shows current status of processes. |
ps4014 | Converts a Tektronix 4014 file to postscript format. |
ps630 | Converts Diablo 630 print files to PostScript format. |
psc | Converts troff intermediate format to PostScript format. |
psdit | Converts troff intermediate format to PostScript format. |
pshare | Enables or reports the availability of login ports. |
psplot | Converts files in plot format to PostScript format. |
psrev | Reverses the page order of a PostScript file and selects a page range for printing. |
psroff | Converts files from troff format to PostScript format. |
pstart | Enables or reports the availability of login ports (normal, shared, and delayed). |
pstat | Interprets the contents of the various system tables and writes it to standard output. |
ptx | Generates a permuted index. |
pwd | Displays the pathname of the working directory. |
pwdadm | Administers user's passwords. |
pwdck | Verifies the correctness of local authentication information. |
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