Re: how to view man pages.

[cjw44@flatline.org.uk (Colin Watson)]

MaD dUCK <madduck@madduck.net> wrote:
>also sprach Xucaen (on Mon, 26 Feb 2001 06:06:48PM -0800):
>> when I type man clear(3NCURSES) i get 
>> xucaen@whitestar:~/src$ man clear(3NCURSES)
>> bash: syntax error near unexpected token
>> `clear(3'
>
>man 3 clear
>
>i know it's weird, but that's how it goes...

Or 'man -S 3 -e ncurses clear' if you want to specify it completely, but
that's rare.

You should find more details in 'man man'. :)

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Colin Watson                                     [cjw44@flatline.org.uk]