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Date:	Sat, 22 Feb 2003 14:31:59 -0500
From:	Christopher Faylor <cgf AT redhat DOT com>
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Subject:	Re: cygwin manual pages
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On Sat, Feb 22, 2003 at 03:35:22PM -0000, Chris January wrote:
>Cygwin lacks manual pages for system calls (open, close), etc. These are
>present in other operating systems, such as Linux. I propose writing some
>manual pages for these system calls similar to those on Linux. The man pages
>would also include Cygwin implementation details that might be relevant to a
>given function. I'm willing to write these pages if people think this is a
>good idea.

Are you sure the man pages aren't available in the newlib tree already?

cgf

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