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 Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:51:09 +0000 Message-ID: <7595-Thu21Mar2002205109+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> X-Mailer: 21.5 (beta2) "artichoke" XEmacs Lucid (via feedmail 9-beta-7 I); VM 7.00 under 21.5 (beta2) "artichoke" XEmacs Lucid From: David Starks-Browning MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: cygwin@cygwin.com Subject: Re: where can I find man page section 2 ? In-Reply-To: <200203210835.OAA22898@sentry-lan.unibase.com> References: <200203210835.OAA22898@sentry-lan.unibase.com> On Thursday 21 Mar 02, Milton Calnek writes: > > 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. I think the original complaint was that Cygwin provides no man pages from section 2. Probably nobody thinks it's worth the trouble. Unless... did you want to pay someone to do it? Should this go in the FAQ? David -- 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/