Date: Tue, 27 May 1997 20:57:41 +0300 (IDT) From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il> To: Tim Oneil <toneil@visigenic.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question! Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.970527205506.13727A-100000@gatekeeper.barcode.co.il> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970527102121.00964af0@visigenic.com>
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On Tue, 27 May 1997, Tim Oneil wrote: > Zahemszky wrote: > >Try mtree(8), with the files in /etc/mtree. > > Heres a stupid, non-mission critical question > if you don't mind: what exactly does the number > in parens following a command mean? Version, something > like that? It's the section of the manual where it belongs. There are some commands that appear in more than one section of the manual, with different meanings. For example: acct(2) - enable or disable process accounting -----^ This section is about system calls - so this is the man page for a system call named acct. acct(5) - execution accounting file -----^ This is the section on file formats, so this is a man page specifying the format of a file. Also see man(1) > > -Tim > > Nadav
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