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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 20:51:09 GMT." David Starks-Browning <starksb@ebi.ac.uk>  
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 15:36:43 +0600


Opps... I got my lists confused...
I thought I sent this to a debian list.


In message <7595-Thu21Mar2002205109+0000-starksb AT ebi DOT ac DOT uk>, David Starks-Browning writes:
> 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
> 
> 
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