From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jan 27 9:13:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from corinth.bossig.com (corinth.bossig.com [208.26.239.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 61D55155CC for ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:13:22 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kstewart@3-cities.com) Received: from 3-cities.com (kenn1113.bossig.com [208.26.241.113]) by corinth.bossig.com (Rockliffe SMTPRA 3.4.6) with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:21:13 -0800 Message-ID: <38907CCD.D88CAA4F@3-cities.com> Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 09:13:49 -0800 From: Kent Stewart Organization: BOSSig X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: en,pdf MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathon McKitrick Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 3 simple bsd questions (man, ~ and moused) References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > > 1. What is the man command that explains man commands, i.e. what (1), > (2), etc. are in the manual? I saw it somewhere, now i can't find it. You have to do a "man mdoc.samples", which explains writing a man page. In it is the following 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 I haven't seen the '~' or at least noticed it. Kent > > 2. What does the '~' after a filename mean? Is this a deleted file > that can be undeleted? I tried man file, filename, ~, undelete, and > whiteout. No dice. > > 3. SOmetimes when i boot up my laptop, the mouse doesn't work. dmesg > says /dev/psm0 not configured. Rebooting works, but takes too > long. GOing to single user mode then back to multi doesn't do it. Is > there a simple way to configure psm0 once i am up and running? Is > this a bug? > > -=> jm <=- > > If a tree falls in the woods and no one is around, does anybody > care? > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ Home http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message