[H-GEN] Man pages (number)

[Sarah Walters]

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On 25 Sep 2003 Greg Black <gjb at gbch.net> 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.

$ uname -sr ; man -aw man
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE-p5
/usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/man.7.gz

Seems to be my day for messing up. I'm accustomed to man offering other
options if I don't specify a particular section. I suppose I don't read 
the manpages on FreeBSD often enough. I don't usually need to - it just
works.

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Mrs Sarah Walters
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University of Wollongong
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