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Date: Wed, 20 Feb 2002 14:39:05 -0500
To: "Alan Huang" <ahuang AT mweb DOT co DOT za>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
From: "Larry Hall (RFK Partners, Inc)" <lhall AT rfk DOT com>
Subject: Re: Getting all "man" pages?
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At 02:33 PM 2/20/2002, Alan Huang wrote:
>Dear all,
>     May I ask that how do I obtain most other "man" pages that exist in
>Linux but not in Cygwin when you install Cygwin? I'm especially looking for
>"man" documents for most C functions. eg. gethostbyname()  I'm sorry that I
>might be asking stupid, newbie questions, but I really couldn't find the
>solution to it...


Pull them from your favorite GNU mirror and untar them into a directory that
man looks at.





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