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Re: where can I find man page section 2 ?
- From: Randall R Schulz <rrschulz at cris dot com>
- To: Milton Calnek <milton at calnek dot com>, cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002 12:51:00 -0800
- Subject: Re: where can I find man page section 2 ?
- References: <"Thu, 21 Mar 2002 20:36:53 +0100." "morkil" <morkil@poczta.onet.pl>
Hi,
To forestall another likely stumbling block, for "man -k" or "apropos" to
work, you must build the "whatis" database by running the "makewhatis"
command. Note, too, that this database must be rebuilt as man pages are
added or the synopsis section of existing ones change.
Randall Schulz
Mountain View, CA USA
At 00:35 2002-03-21, Milton Calnek wrote:
>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@main.gmane.org>, "morkil" writes:
> > I've used debian packages (they're in tar.gz format).
> >
> > --
> > morkil
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