Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2002 16:39:08 -0500 From: Todd Ross <brainlist@brainsick.com> To: "Morse, Richard E." <REMORSE@PARTNERS.ORG> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: two quick questions (man pages and tcsh) Message-ID: <20020420213723.EEBF937B41A@hub.freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1986@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu> References: <375F68784081D511908A00508BE3BB1701EF1986@phsexch22.mgh.harvard.edu>
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On Saturday 20 April 2002 02:33 pm, you wrote: > Todd Ross [mailto:brainlist@brainsick.com] > > > 2) Why do some man pages have (4) or (2) after them? For > > example ... usb(4). > > The man pages are split into many separate sections. Thus, you can have > the same item in several sections -- crontab comes to mind. Try doing > man 1 crontab > and > man 5 crontab > to see what I mean... Thanks for the explanation ... that was my next question, is how do you access different sections of the same man page, but I was going to try looking it up before asking. I guess I don't need to now. Todd To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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