From owner-freebsd-newbies Mon Jul 19 8:39:53 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org Received: from topsecret.net (gill.apk.net [207.54.148.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5076B14E74 for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 08:39:50 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from gill@topsecret.net) Received: from stumpy by topsecret.net with SMTP (MDaemon.v2.7.SP5.R) for ; Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:36:17 -0400 From: "James Gill" To: Subject: question(0) Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:36:55 -0400 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal X-MDaemon-Deliver-To: freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org X-Return-Path: gill@topsecret.net Sender: owner-freebsd-newbies@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Often in conversations people will refer to system programs and stuff with a number in parentheses afterwords. What is the significance of the numbers? What is their significance when there is no number within? Calling a manpage for a different (number) brings up a different manual page i think. for example a subject line from -security from last week: Re: OpenBSD's strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3) ===================================== James Gill * http://www.topsecret.net ===================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message