Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:55:04 -0500 From: Christopher Faylor To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: where can I find man page section 2 ? Message-ID: <20020321205504.GF19182@redhat.com> Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com References: <200203210835 DOT OAA22898 AT sentry-lan DOT unibase DOT com> <7595-Thu21Mar2002205109+0000-starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7595-Thu21Mar2002205109+0000-starksb@ebi.ac.uk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.23.1i On Thu, Mar 21, 2002 at 08:51:09PM +0000, David Starks-Browning wrote: >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? I'd be happy to have a volunteer to support this. I keep asking for documentation volunteers but it's easier to complain than to do. cgf -- Please do not send me personal email with cygwin questions. Use the resources at http://cygwin.com/ . -- 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/