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Subject: Re: man 1 as
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On Sat, 16 Aug 2003 22:19, Daniela wrote:
> On Saturday 16 August 2003 10:30, freebsd_deamon@gmx.net wrote:
> > dear list
> >
> > yesterday evening i fliped through the developers handbook x86 assenb=
ler
> > section.
> > it states that an assembler compile is part of the base system
> > (http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/developers-handbook=
/x86
> >-t he-tools.html). i can't find it on 5.1-R.
> >
> > the FreeBSD web site doesn't have it either. Does it still exist?
>
> The command "man 1 as" also doesn't do anything on my system, but "man =
as"
> brings the first section of the manpage, as we would expect it.
>
> I don't know what's going on, but the "as" command should also be there=
 on
> your system.

It seems 'as' is in a special man section; viz: 1aout.
So it is not: man 1 as
but: man 1aout as

Why? I'm not sure but the other entries appear to be a few classical a.ou=
t=20
utilities rather than elf specific.

Malcolm