From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Dec 23 08:57:56 1995 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id IAA19395 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 08:57:56 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet1.buffnet.net (mmdf@buffnet1.buffnet.net [205.246.19.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id IAA19390 for ; Sat, 23 Dec 1995 08:57:54 -0800 (PST) Received: from buffnet3.buffnet.net by buffnet1.buffnet.net id aa06495; 23 Dec 95 11:59 EST Date: Sat, 23 Dec 1995 11:59:26 -0500 (EST) From: steve hovey To: David Brockus cc: FreeBSD questions Subject: Re: man pages question In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk On Fri, 22 Dec 1995, David Brockus wrote: > I apologize in advance if this is a stupid question. I have two man > pages with same name, but different number headings. > > hylafax(1) > hylafax(5f) > > When I try just hylafax it display only the (1) page. When I try hylafax(5f) > I get bad use of parenthesis error. How do I view the hylafax(5f) > page. I read the man page on man but that wasn't very helpful. Thanks > in advance. Say 'man -a hylafax' - when you quit the first it should display the second. ------------------------------------------------------------- Steve Hovey -- shovey@buffnet.net root@buffnet.net