From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Sep 19 17:14:35 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (mta06-svc.ntlworld.com [62.253.162.46]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E68037B424 for ; Tue, 19 Sep 2000 17:14:32 -0700 (PDT) Received: from parish ([62.255.97.7]) by mta06-svc.ntlworld.com (InterMail vM.4.01.02.27 201-229-119-110) with ESMTP id <20000920001425.FJW312.mta06-svc.ntlworld.com@parish>; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 01:14:25 +0100 Received: (from mark@localhost) by parish (8.11.0/8.11.0) id e8K0EBO19057; Wed, 20 Sep 2000 01:14:11 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from mark) Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2000 01:14:03 +0100 From: Mark Ovens To: Jan Knepper Cc: Bruce Petro , freebsd-questions Subject: Re: Is there a summary of man stuff? Message-ID: <20000920011403.E257@parish> References: <381765155.969405532704.JavaMail.root@web307-mc.mail.com> <39C7FB69.B2190624@smartsoft.cc> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <39C7FB69.B2190624@smartsoft.cc>; from jan@smartsoft.cc on Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:48:57PM -0400 Organization: Total lack of Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 07:48:57PM -0400, Jan Knepper wrote: > Try > apropos 'whatever' > or > whatis 'whatever' > > Guess that will help you. > % apropos
where section is the section number (1-9) will be closer to what you want. Under FreeBSD, the following section numbers and their descrip- tions are described below: 1 FreeBSD General Commands Manual 2 FreeBSD System Calls Manaul 3 FreeBSD Library Calls Manual 4 FreeBSD Kernel Interfaces Manual 5 FreeBSD File Formats Manual 6 FreeBSD Games Manual 7 FreeBSD Miscellaneous Information Manual 8 FreeBSD System Manager's Manual 9 FreeBSD Kernel Developers Guide > Don't worry, be Kneppie! > Jan > > > > Bruce Petro wrote: > > > I've looked at man man and I don't see any option to display a list of all available man pages list single line summaries. > > > > IE: Something like this that I snitched from whatis man but a nice alphabetical list or category list of all man pages available: > > catman(1) - preformat man pages > > man(1) - format and display the on-line manual pages > > man(7) - quick reference guide for the -man macro package > > manpath(1)- determine user's search path for man pages > > pod2man(1)- translate embedded Perl pod directives into man pages > > ... on and on, a long list ... > > > > So I guess my question is as follows: > > 1. Is there a way to request a man summary like this? > > 2. Is there a HTML site somewhere that perhaps gives a summary of the standard man pages either alphabetically or even better a summary of man pages ordered by categories! > > > > THANKS! > > > > ______________________________________________ > > FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com > > Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > -- > Jan Knepper > Smartsoft, LLC > 88 Petersburg Road > Petersburg, NJ 08270 > U.S.A. > > http://www.smartsoft.cc/ > http://www.mp3.com/pianoprincess > > Phone : 609-628-4260 > FAX : 609-628-1267 > FAX : 303-845-6415 http://www.fax4free.com/ > > Phone : 020-873-3837 http://www.xoip.nl/ (Dutch) > FAX : 020-873-3837 http://www.xoip.nl/ (Dutch) > > In God we Trust -- all others must submit an X.509 certificate. > -- Charles Forsythe > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- 4.4 - The number of the Beastie ________________________________________________________________ 51.44°N FreeBSD - The Power To Serve http://www.freebsd.org 2.057°W My Webpage http://ukug.uk.freebsd.org/~mark mailto:marko@freebsd.org http://www.radan.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message