From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 30 04:17:48 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA11462 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 30 May 1997 04:17:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE [137.226.116.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id EAA11457 for ; Fri, 30 May 1997 04:17:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de [137.226.31.2]) by Campino.Informatik.RWTH-Aachen.DE (RBI-Z-5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id NAA05129; Fri, 30 May 1997 13:17:27 +0200 (MET DST) Received: (from kuku@localhost) by gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de (8.8.5/8.6.9) id NAA17736; Fri, 30 May 1997 13:20:44 +0200 (MEST) Message-ID: <19970530132043.14261@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Date: Fri, 30 May 1997 13:20:43 +0200 From: Christoph Kukulies To: Tim Oneil Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Question! References: <3.0.32.19970527102121.00964af0@visigenic.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.69e In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970527102121.00964af0@visigenic.com>; from Tim Oneil on Tue, May 27, 1997 at 10:21:21AM -0700 Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, May 27, 1997 at 10:21:21AM -0700, 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? No, not version. It's the number of chapter of the man(1) man pages collection the man command should look up the desired information since quite a lot of commands have man pages in different chapters. To force man to lookup a command in a specific chapter, just type e.g. man 8 mtree > > -Tim -- Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de