where can I find man page section 2 ?

David Starks-Browning starksb@ebi.ac.uk
Thu Mar 21 13:12:00 GMT 2002


On Thursday 21 Mar 02, Milton Calnek writes:
> 
> man 2 command
> 
> And you only need to specify the section if the topic is listed in
> multiple sections ie: write. 
> 
> FWIW: you could have read this in the "man" man page.
> ie: man man
> 
> And you may find man -k  (aka apropos) useful too.

I think the original complaint was that Cygwin provides no man pages
from section 2.

Probably nobody thinks it's worth the trouble.  Unless... did you want
to pay someone to do it?

Should this go in the FAQ?

David


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