klee@chico.pa.dec.com (Ken Lee) (12/22/89)
In article <664@nems.dt.navy.mil>, lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Lumsdon) writes: > At the bottom of man entries, the user is frequently referred to the > man pages for other commands. Like this: > rn(1), vi(3), ckermit(1) These refer to sections of the UNIX manual: 1. user commands 2. system calls 3. subroutines 4. special files 5. file formats and conventions 6. games 7. macro packages and language conventions 8. system maintenance commands Each section has an introduction, which you can read on-line by typing "man # intro", where # is the section number. Ken Lee DEC Western Software Laboratory, Palo Alto, Calif. Internet: klee@decwrl.dec.com uucp: uunet!decwrl!klee
lumsdon@dtoa1.dt.navy.mil (Lumsdon) (12/22/89)
Thank you to everyone who replied! Happy Holidays! My mailbox overflowed this morning! It was really wonderful of so many people to answer my questions. I really appreciate it! Thanks y'all. --- Esther Lumsdon David Taylor Research Center Annapolis Lab cm 301-267-3816 av 281-3816