Re: man?

[George Bonser <grep@shorelink.com>]

With linux you would use

man 3 sleep
man -S3 sleep

With Solaris you would use

man -s3 sleep 

since the lower case s is not being used in the Linux man command, there
is no reason that it can not be patched to accept the lower case and be
more compatable with Solaris.

AS a matter of fact, I think this is patch I can make myself.


On Thu, 3 Sep 1998, M.C. Vernon wrote:

> 
> If I want to read e.g. sleep(3) as opposed to say sleep (1), is there a
> quicker way than man -a sleep ?
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> Thanks,
> 
> Matthew
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