[H-GEN] Man pages (number)

[Greg Black]

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On 2003-09-25, Robert Brockway wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003, Sarah Walters wrote:
> 
> > > man -s 1 passwd
> > > man -s 5 passwd
> >
> > Oops ... one day I will remember that *everything* is customised around
> 
> Yeah, I got that one wrong too :)  6 months not playing with Solaris and
> my brain rots ;)

One might argue that those 6 months were doing your brain some
good :-)  But this is also one of the reasons why RTFM is often
the best answer, as it means the person will both learn to use
the tool that is provided to answer this kind of question and
that she will end up with the right answer for her system ...

Cheers, Greg

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