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+.TH VENTI 3
+.SH NAME
+xxx \- Venti storage server
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.PP
+.ft L
+#include <u.h>
+.br
+#include <libc.h>
+.br
+#include <venti.h>
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+The Venti library provides support for writing Venti servers and clients.
+This manual page describes general utility functions.
+.PP
+Other manual pages describe the library functions in detail.
+.PP
+.IR Venti-cache (3)
+describes a simple in-memory block cache to help clients.
+.PP
+.IR Venti-conn (3)
+describes routines for manipulating network connections
+between Venti clients and servers.
+.IR Venti-client (3)
+and
+.IR venti-server (3)
+describe routines for writing clients
+and servers on top of these.
+.PP
+.IR Venti-fcall (3)
+describes the in-memory representation of Venti protocol messages
+and data structures.
+It also describes routines that convert between the C representation
+and the network and disk representations.
+.PP
+.IR Venti-file (3)
+describes routines for writing clients that manipulate
+Venti file trees
+(see
+.IR venti (1)).
+.PP
+.IR Venti-log (3)
+describes routines to access in-memory log buffers
+as well as the logging that is done automatically by
+the library.
+.PP
+.IR Venti-mem (3)
+describes wrappers around the canonical
+.IR malloc (3)
+routines that abort on error.
+.PP
+.IR Venti-packet (3)
+describes routines for 
+efficiently manipulating chains of
+data buffers.
+.PP
+.IR Venti-zero (3)
+describes routines to zero truncate and zero extend blocks
+(see
+.IR venti (1)).
+.SH SOURCE
+.B \*9/src/libventi
+.SH SEE ALSO
+.IR venti (1),
+.IR venti-cache (3),
+.IR venti-client (3),
+.IR venti-fcall (3),
+.IR venti-file (3)
+.IR venti-log (3),
+.IR venti-mem (3),
+.IR venti-packet (3),
+.IR venti-server (3),
+.IR venti-zero (3),
+.IR venti (7),
+.IR venti (8)