.\" Copyright (c) 1983 The Regents of the University of California.
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services \- service name data base
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:
Items are separated by any number of blanks and/or
tab characters. The port number and protocol name
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,
A name server should be used instead of a static file.