[H-GEN] string.h man page

[Douglas C]

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On Thu, 05 Sep 2002 20:33:24 +1000
Clinton Roy <croy at dstc.edu.au> wrote:

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> Sarah Hollings <sarah at humanfactors.uq.edu.au> writes:
> 
> > sez at gargrevarr:~/uni/comp2502/assgnt1$ man string.h
> > No manual entry for string.h
> > sez at gargrevarr:~/uni/comp2502/assgnt1$ man string
> > Reformatting string(3), please wait...
> > sez at gargrevarr:~/uni/comp2502/assgnt1$
> 
> So it found the manpage but appeared to choke? Um, that could be
> a squillion things in your environment (man man, if that works, or
> look below). It might also be your man database (mandb -c to recreate
> it from scratch).
> 
> I've really got no idea where to start debugging that, except for
> clearing your environment and starting from scratch.
> 
> anyways, something like
> 
> zcat /usr/share/man/man3/strcmp.3.gz  | nroff -man | less
> 
> should let you see what you want right now.
> 
> Now I *really* hope *that* helps :)
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> Clinton Roy
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glibc-doc (formerly libc6-doc IIRC) is a nice reference for c development also.

`info glibc`

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