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Date:      Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:47:46 -0500
From:      Steve Tremblett <sjt@cisco.com>
To:        Ruslan Ermilov <ru@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        brain_damaged <brain_damaged@florida-wireless.com>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: man page question
Message-ID:  <20011121104746.F20775@sjt-u10.cisco.com>
In-Reply-To: <20011121174002.C13277@sunbay.com>; from ru@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 05:40:02PM %2B0200
References:  <200111211032.AA1632108746@florida-wireless.com> <20011121174002.C13277@sunbay.com>

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+---- Ruslan Ermilov wrote:
| On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 10:32:25AM -0500, brain_damaged wrote:
| > hello,
| > what does the (2) or (7) mean or refer to ?
| > 
| > SEE ALSO
| >      link(2), lstat(2), readlink(2), stat(2), symlink(2), symlink(7)
| > 
| These are the section numbers.  ``whatis intro'' gives a full list.

FYI - you can read pages in a section with:

man [section] [keyword]

You'll notice that the whatis command gave you a list of manpages - to
look at manpages in different sections with the same title (like those
intro pages), you would use:

man 4 intro

man 3 intro

etc.

-- 
Steve Tremblett

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