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Re: where can I find man page section 2 ?
- From: Milton Calnek <milton at calnek dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:36:43 +0600
- Subject: Re: where can I find man page section 2 ?
Opps... I got my lists confused...
I thought I sent this to a debian list.
In message <7595-Thu21Mar2002205109+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk>, David Starks-Browning writes:
> On Thursday 21 Mar 02, Milton Calnek writes:
> >
> > man 2 command
> >
> > And you only need to specify the section if the topic is listed in
> > multiple sections ie: write.
> >
> > FWIW: you could have read this in the "man" man page.
> > ie: man man
> >
> > And you may find man -k (aka apropos) useful too.
>
> I think the original complaint was that Cygwin provides no man pages
> from section 2.
>
> Probably nobody thinks it's worth the trouble. Unless... did you want
> to pay someone to do it?
>
> Should this go in the FAQ?
>
> David
>
>
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