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From: shanee@rabbit.augusta.de (Andreas Kohout)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: help a novice. (PART II)
Date: 4 Jul 1996 11:24:13 GMT
Organization: Privat Site running FreeBSD
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In article <31d76f64.6864854@news.axxcess.net>,
handyman@axxcess.net (shaun.) writes:
> A few more questions:
>
> 2a. When I type in...fdformat(1) or another command that uses the
> ()'s, it say "Badly placed ()'s", where do i place them?
the (1) meens that this command is in section 1 of the manuals
/usr/share/man/man1/fdformat.1
to read the manual, type man fdformat or man 1 fdformat. If there are to
manualpages with the same name (esp. smail(5) and smail(8), section 5 is
for File Formats and section 8 is for System Administartion) then a
man smail shows the page from section 8 (because this is the main page).
If you want information about file formats type man 5 smail.
(the example with smail will only work if you have the port smail
installed. You may try man cvs, man 8 cvs or man 5 cvs to see the
differentses)
HTH
--
Greeting, Andy
running FreeBSD-current
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