Re: OT: C documentation
man 4 random
If you run 'man <topic>' and it gives a different topic than the one you wanted
look in the upper right corner for <topic>(<number>) you need to look in higher
sections for the new topic
man <number+1> <topic>
or whatever.
Run 'man man' for more info on it.
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:20:17PM +0100, Sebastiaan scribbled...
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> On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, ^chewie wrote:
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> > Sebastiaan wrote:
> > > is there a package containing the documents regarding the standard C
> > > library's, including examples of every command?
> >
> > info libc
> >
> > and apt-get install manpages-dev
> Yes, thank you. This installs a lot of information.
>
> But now that I have new manpages, old manpages disappear, e.g. before
> installing this, 'man random' gave me information about /dev/random, but
> now it gives me information about the random function of C.
>
> Is there a way to tell man that by default it should look for non-Cdev
> pages, unless I told him so?
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Sebastiaan
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> >
> > or apt-cache search '(libc).*doc'
> >
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