[H-GEN] Man pages (number)

[Sandra Milne]

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Sarah Walters wrote:


> Actually, this appears to be system dependent. On Solaris 9 I find man 
> in sections 1 (main page) and 5 (man macros) only. On FreeBSD I only 
> find man in section 1. I don't have a linux machine accessible at the 
> moment, or I'd look there too.
> 
works in debian:
MAN(7)              Linux Programmer's Manual              MAN(7)

NAME
        man - macros to format man pages

However, I doubt this is exactly what somebody who didn't know the 'man' 
command would be looking for.

man 1 man
is more what you'd need if you didn't know about 'man':

man(1)                  Manual pager utils                 man(1)

NAME
        man - an interface to the on-line reference manuals

Sandra.
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