Re: OT: C documentation
Hey, that is a cool trick. Thanks.
On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, Jason Majors wrote:
> 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...
> >
> >
> > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, ^chewie wrote:
> >
> > > 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
> >
> >
> > >
> > > or apt-cache search '(libc).*doc'
> > >
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