[H-GEN] Man pages (number)

[Greg Black]

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On 2003-09-25, 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.

Seems an odd result for FreeBSD; I just tried the following on
FreeBSD boxes running 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 and the sample shown below.
With the exception of the uname output, they were all the same:

$ uname -sr ; man -aw man
FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE
/usr/share/man/cat1/man.1.gz (source: /usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz)
/usr/share/man/cat7/man.7.gz (source: /usr/share/man/man7/man.7.gz)

Of course, each man(1) variant has its own idiosyncrasies, which
is why one should always start with a simple "man man" to get at
the information needed to use it effectively.

Cheers, Greg

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