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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: [Q] How to create MAN pages?
Date: 9 Mar 1996 16:11:00 GMT
Organization: Private BSD site, Dresden
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tom@tarush.chattanooga.net (Tom Rush) writes:
> /usr/{share,local,X11R6}/man/man[1-8]; Sections 1-8 are for:
> 1. user commands 2. system calls 3. library functions 4. device drivers
> 5. file formats 6. games 7. misc 8. system maint.
Two nits:
/usr/local/man was a failure, it should have been /usr/local/share/man.
We've recently added section 9: kernel stuff.
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cheers, J"org
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