Re: C function manpages

[glhenni@cs.sandia.gov (Gary L. Hennigan)]

Colin Marquardt <colin.marquardt@gmx.de> writes:

| * Alec Smith <alec@shadowstar.net> writes:
| 
| > On Solaris and other systems I could execute a command such as 'man getc'
| > for example to look up info on the C getc() function. On Debian I haven't
| > been able to do this without getting the 'no manual entry' message. Which
| > package might I install to get the same (or similar) functionality as
| > Solaris?
| 
| info getc works fine for me.
| 
| When you are coding in (X)Emacs, another nice thing is word-help.el
| or func-doc.el.

% locate getc.3
/usr/man/man3/fgetc.3.gz
/usr/man/man3/getc.3.gz
/usr/man/man3/ungetc.3.gz

% dpkg -S getc.3.gz
manpages-dev: /usr/man/man3/getc.3.gz
manpages-dev: /usr/man/man3/fgetc.3.gz
manpages-dev: /usr/man/man3/ungetc.3.gz

Looks like the manpages-dev is the package he wants.

Gary