Date: Fri, 28 Nov 1997 17:12:17 -0500 (EST) From: "Adrian T. Filipi-Martin" <atf3r@cs.virginia.edu> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: glb@zeus.jersey.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: That little number in parens(*) Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.96.971128170456.4732B-100000@mamba.cs.Virginia.EDU> In-Reply-To: <19971128145731.27968@lemis.com>
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On Fri, 28 Nov 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thu, Nov 27, 1997 at 10:57:30PM +0000, glb@Zeus.jersey.net wrote: > > After reading a lot of docs, I still haven't found out what that > > number in parens after command names and such is (ie. lpr(1)). > > > > What is the number? What does it refer to? > > It's the manual section number. From the second edition of "The > Complete FreeBSD": > > The online manual is divided up into sections numbered: > > 1. User commands > > 2. System calls and error numbers > > 3. Functions in the C libraries > > 4. Device drivers > > 5. File formats > > 6. Games and other diversions > > 7. Miscellaneous information > > 8. System maintenance and operation commands > > 9. Kernel interface documentation > > Greg To get familiar with what is in each section, you can do "man 1 intro", "man 2 intro", etc. Each section has a page describing what the section is about as well as possibly providing info that is relavant to all pages in the section, e.g. intro(2) has the documentation for the errno global error variable and what its different values mean. "apropos '(1)'" will also give you a one line synopsis of the pages in section 1 that you have installed. cheers, Adrian -- adrian@virginia.edu ---->>>>| If I were stranded on a desert island, and System Administrator --->>>| I could only have one OS for my computer, Neurosurgical Visualzation Lab -->>| it would be FreeBSD. Think about it..... http://www.nvl.virginia.edu/ ->| http://www.freebsd.org/
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