On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:14:57PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:32:51PM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:01:15PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > > > reading the signal(7) man page I noticed > > > the header "Linux Programmer's Manual" - > > > yet, how to I find the contents or index > > > of this manual 'section'? > > > > Install dwww and use the index it generates. Use apropos to look for > > keywords in the headers of man pages. > > I had come across dwww browsing apt-cache, I think tkman > has something simular - but It didn't help me to under- > stand if/how all these man pages are logicaly organised.
In general they aren't, beyond the division into sections. There's no central authority administering the contents of man pages. > "Apropos" is one of my favorit helpers, but if you do a: > "apropos program|grep signal" > you end up in no results, yet the above mentioned signal > man page has this header "Linux Programmer's Manual". apropos looks in the "NAME" section of the page, not that text (which is mostly not very important and usually just a description of the numeric section or the organization responsible for the page; "Linux Programmer's Manual" is simply set in the .TH line of the man page itself). You might find the package system more informative here. 'dpkg -S signal.7' says that that page comes from the 'manpages' package, and 'dpkg -L manpages' will list the other pages from the same source. Cheers, -- Colin Watson (man-db maintainer) [[EMAIL PROTECTED]] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
