From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Sep 13 18:15:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id SAA03743 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 18:15:14 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts12-line4.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.136]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id SAA03735 for ; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 18:15:07 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id SAA00282; Fri, 13 Sep 1996 18:15:12 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 13 Sep 1996 18:15:12 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Mikael Johansson cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: about search In-Reply-To: <32379639.534E@pluggnet.se> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 12 Sep 1996, Mikael Johansson wrote: > I am at the moment having a problem finding information how to > configure some thing called "ioctl" file in my system. > > ioctl = is this the i/o device control file ? No; it's a function for I/O device control. > is there some information en documentation ? not on the web ? > > why is it not possible to search in manual pages on the web ? > like "man -k ioctl" ? The man pages are on the web. The link is on http://www.freebsd.org under Documentation, then Man Pages. I'm looking at the ioctl(2) man page righ now. > I didn4t install manual pages on my system ! I'd install them. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major