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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
To: Tim Oneil <toneil@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