Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2003 13:55:11 +0930 From: Malcolm Kay <malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> To: Daniela <dgw@liwest.at>, freebsd_deamon@gmx.net, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man 1 as Message-ID: <200308171355.11786.malcolm.kay@internode.on.net> In-Reply-To: <200308161249.58052.dgw@liwest.at> References: <28510.1061029808@www46.gmx.net> <200308161249.58052.dgw@liwest.at>
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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
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