Date: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 09:01:11 +0300 (EEST) From: Alexander V Zubchenko <stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Problems installing XFree86 Message-ID: <20020626085655.W9544-100000@server.hermes-comp.zp.ua> In-Reply-To: <OE15ABZTW5k1Ed28kIN0000018c@hotmail.com>
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Greetings! On Tue, 25 Jun 2002, Victor Wang wrote: > Also, why do people always put a number in brackets after every command? For example, ls(1). BTW, yes, I am a newbie. Sorry, just one more comment. In fact, number in brackets is number of section for 'man' command (from 'manual'). Good example is, when you are talking about passwd command (to change password), you are talking about passwd(1). But when you are talking about file /etc/passwd (where information about users, and not passwords as for today:):) is stored), you are talking about passwd(5). To check about some command use 'man <number_in_brackets> <word_before_brackets>'. Alexander V Zubchenko, E-Mail: stalker@hermes-comp.zp.ua System Administrator, WWW: http://www.hermes-comp.zp.ua/ Hermes-comp, Ukraine, Zaporizhzhya, Geroev Stalingrada 50 phone/fax: +380 612 64-19-72 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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