Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 13:20:43 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> To: Tim Oneil <toneil@visigenic.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question! Message-ID: <19970530132043.14261@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970527102121.00964af0@visigenic.com>; from Tim Oneil on Tue, May 27, 1997 at 10:21:21AM -0700 References: <3.0.32.19970527102121.00964af0@visigenic.com>
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On Tue, May 27, 1997 at 10:21:21AM -0700, Tim Oneil wrote: > Zahemszky wrote: > >Try mtree(8), with the files in /etc/mtree. > > Heres a stupid, non-mission critical question > if you don't mind: what exactly does the number > in parens following a command mean? Version, something > like that? No, not version. It's the number of chapter of the man(1) man pages collection the man command should look up the desired information since quite a lot of commands have man pages in different chapters. To force man to lookup a command in a specific chapter, just type e.g. man 8 mtree > > -Tim -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
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