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According to Charles D. Russell on 5/2/2006 6:55 AM:
> Is there somewhere I can download the *.2 manpages for functions
> available in cygwin?  I couldn't find them using the setup package
> search.  I have an old printed unix manual, but it would be nice not to
> have to carry it around.

Not all the functions have man pages in cygwin - volunteers are welcome to
help write some.  Having said that, the web is your friend - most of the
cygwin syscalls are modeled after Linux, so looking at Linux man pages is
usually a good start (although not always accurate on cygwin); also POSIX
and SUSv3 are freely available standards on the web, with pretty good
descriptions of what a portable implementation will do.

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Eric Blake             ebb9 AT byu DOT net
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