Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20020321124901.024bd0c0@pop3.cris.com> X-Sender: rrschulz@pop3.cris.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:51:00 -0800 To: Milton Calnek , cygwin@cygwin.com From: Randall R Schulz Subject: Re: where can I find man page section 2 ? In-Reply-To: <200203210835.OAA22898@sentry-lan.unibase.com> References: <"Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:36:53 +0100." "morkil" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Hi, To forestall another likely stumbling block, for "man -k" or "apropos" to work, you must build the "whatis" database by running the "makewhatis" command. Note, too, that this database must be rebuilt as man pages are added or the synopsis section of existing ones change. Randall Schulz Mountain View, CA USA At 00:35 2002-03-21, Milton Calnek wrote: >man 2 command > >And you only need to specify the section if the topic is listed in >multiple sections ie: write. > >FWIW: you could have read this in the "man" man page. ie: man man > >And you may find man -k (aka apropos) useful too. > > >Good luck. > >In message , "morkil" writes: > > I've used debian packages (they're in tar.gz format). > > > > -- > > morkil -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/