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From: Milton Calnek <milton AT calnek DOT com>
Subject: Re: where can I find man page section 2 ? 
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In-reply-to: "Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:36:53 +0100." "morkil" <morkil@poczta.onet.pl>  
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 14:35:39 +0600


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 <a7dcqm$rdn$1 AT main DOT gmane DOT org>, "morkil" writes:
> I've used debian packages (they're in tar.gz format).
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