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Re: where can I find man page section 2 ?


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
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