Re: manpage: Section 1L

["Thomas Viehmann" <tv@beamnet.de>]

Hi.

Andreas Metzler (ametzler@logic.univie.ac.at) wrote:
> > The L probably stands for latex (OK, you knew that) and if they ship enough
> > manpages, they might want to add a suffix.
> [...]
>
> I doubt the interpretation L for LaTeX is correct, it is probably L
> for "local". e.g. the findutils manpages also use 1L. I guess it
> origintes from times when you had to differ between "original unix
> system" and local stuff like GNU userland and TeX.
OK, upon closer inspection, if the L was LaTeX, latex(1) would probably be 1L,
too.
Sorry for the misinformation and thanks a lot for the correction.

Kind regards

Thomas