From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 21 7:47:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cisco.com (sword.cisco.com [161.44.208.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DCE8C37B417; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 07:47:51 -0800 (PST) Received: from sjt-u10.cisco.com (sjt-u10.cisco.com [10.85.30.63]) by cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA12944; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:47:47 -0500 (EST) Received: (sjt@localhost) by sjt-u10.cisco.com (8.8.5-Cisco.1/CISCO.WS.1.2) id KAA21157; Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:47:46 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2001 10:47:46 -0500 From: Steve Tremblett To: Ruslan Ermilov Cc: brain_damaged , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: man page question Message-ID: <20011121104746.F20775@sjt-u10.cisco.com> References: <200111211032.AA1632108746@florida-wireless.com> <20011121174002.C13277@sunbay.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20011121174002.C13277@sunbay.com>; from ru@FreeBSD.ORG on Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 05:40:02PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG +---- Ruslan Ermilov wrote: | On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 10:32:25AM -0500, brain_damaged wrote: | > hello, | > what does the (2) or (7) mean or refer to ? | > | > SEE ALSO | > link(2), lstat(2), readlink(2), stat(2), symlink(2), symlink(7) | > | These are the section numbers. ``whatis intro'' gives a full list. FYI - you can read pages in a section with: man [section] [keyword] You'll notice that the whatis command gave you a list of manpages - to look at manpages in different sections with the same title (like those intro pages), you would use: man 4 intro man 3 intro etc. -- Steve Tremblett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message