From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 3 13: 4:22 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mojave.sitaranetworks.com (mojave.sitaranetworks.com [199.103.141.157]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 556BF150D4 for ; Wed, 3 Nov 1999 13:03:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from grog@mojave.sitaranetworks.com) Message-ID: <19991103160337.32492@mojave.sitaranetworks.com> Date: Wed, 3 Nov 1999 16:03:37 -0500 From: Greg Lehey To: Jonathon McKitrick , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: numbers in parens??? Reply-To: Greg Lehey References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii In-Reply-To: ; from Jonathon McKitrick on Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 08:42:42PM +0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wednesday, 3 November 1999 at 20:42:42 +0000, Jonathon McKitrick wrote: > What does ppp(8) mean? AT first i thought this meant ppp man page 8, but > when i tried the man page, it said ppp(8) on page 1. It's the section of the manual. Section 8 are system administration tools. I don't have a handy overview of the section numbers, but 'man -a intro' will show you the into pages for each section. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message