From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Nov 28 08:08:23 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id IAA21891 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 08:08:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [208.147.154.56]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id IAA21886 for ; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 08:08:19 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net) Received: from nospam.hiwaay.net (tnt2-195.HiWAAY.net [208.147.148.195]) by fly.HiWAAY.net (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA26795; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 10:08:14 -0600 (CST) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by nospam.hiwaay.net (8.8.8/8.8.4) with ESMTP id KAA23607; Fri, 28 Nov 1997 10:08:12 -0600 (CST) Message-Id: <199711281608.KAA23607@nospam.hiwaay.net> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Greg Lehey cc: Studded , glb@Zeus.jersey.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: David Kelly Subject: Re: That little number in parens(*) In-reply-to: Message from Greg Lehey of "Fri, 28 Nov 1997 16:29:47 +1030." <19971128162947.64642@lemis.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 10:08:11 -0600 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > On Thu, Nov 27, 1997 at 09:14:36PM -0800, Studded wrote: > > glb@Zeus.jersey.net wrote: > >> > > I thought sure I'd seen a man page that describes the layout of each > > section, but I can't find it right now. This would be a good thing for > > Greg's book though. :) > > Now *there*'s a good idea :-) > > In fact, it was in the last edition, too, on page 152. Start with "man intro" and observe there is an intro for each man section 1 thru 9. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@nospam.hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system.