Date: Fri, 22 Dec 1995 15:38:46 -0800 From: Eric Blood <eblood@winky.reno.nv.us> To: David Brockus <dbrockus@cyberhall.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: man pages question Message-ID: <199512222338.PAA27548@winky.reno.nv.us> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 22 Dec 1995 16:12:18 GMT." <Pine.BSF.3.91.951222160706.497A-100000@cyber1.cyberhall.com>
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In message <Pine.BSF.3.91.951222160706.497A-100000@cyber1.cyberhall.com>you wri
te:
>When I try just hylafax it display only the (1) page. When I try
>hylafax(5f)...
man 5f hylafax
Also, you might want do a "man man" to understand how man works. The
synopsis (as follows):
man [-adfhktw] [-m system] [-p string] [-M path] [-P
pager] [-S list] [section] name ...
says that a section (ie, 1 or 5f) is optional when specifying which
man page to view. Taken from the man page, "If section is specified,
man only looks in that section of the manual."
In general, section 1 is commands, 2 is system calls, 3 is libraries,
4 is special files (devices), 5 is file formats, 6 is games, 7 is misc,
and 8 is system adminstration. So, if you did a "man cd" you would
get the man page on change directory. If you did "man 4 cd" you would
get the man page on the cdrom device.
Good luck.
Eric Blood
eblood@cs.unr.edu, http://www.cs.unr.edu/~eblood
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