Date: Mon, 19 Jul 1999 11:36:55 -0400 From: "James Gill" <gill@topsecret.net> To: <freebsd-newbies@freebsd.org> Subject: question(0) Message-ID: <NDBBJDFMIMOCFNNCEKADIELGCJAA.gill@topsecret.net>
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Often in conversations people will refer to system programs and stuff with a number in parentheses afterwords. What is the significance of the numbers? What is their significance when there is no number within? Calling a manpage for a different (number) brings up a different manual page i think. for example a subject line from -security from last week: Re: OpenBSD's strlcpy(3) and strlcat(3) ===================================== James Gill * http://www.topsecret.net ===================================== To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-newbies" in the body of the message
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