1p description in intro(1) -- or intro(1p)

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Hello man7.org maintainers,

You have many man pages that are categorised as being in section 1p
(currently 175, according to
https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/dir_section_1.html).

Perhaps you might want to consider adding an explanation to intro(1) what "1p"
actually stands for?  Currently that explanation can only be found in
your changelong as far as I can tell:

> "Once upon time Andries added a number of Section 1 manual pages
        to man-pages.  However, since that time, those pages have not
        seen much maintenance, and are not in fact distributed in most
        distributions.  Instead most distributions supply the
        coreutils versions of these pages, which are currently
        maintained.  In addition, man-pages provides the 1p pages,
        which document the portable subset of functionality of these
        commands.  Since the man1 pages are mostly unneeded, and
        out of date, I'm removing them."
--https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/changelog.html

Thanks and regards,
Ian

(Ian Ropers)



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