man 4 random If you run 'man <topic>' and it gives a different topic than the one you wanted look in the upper right corner for <topic>(<number>) you need to look in higher sections for the new topic man <number+1> <topic> or whatever. Run 'man man' for more info on it.
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:20:17PM +0100, Sebastiaan scribbled... > > > On Tue, 20 Mar 2001, ^chewie wrote: > > > Sebastiaan wrote: > > > is there a package containing the documents regarding the standard C > > > library's, including examples of every command? > > > > info libc > > > > and apt-get install manpages-dev > Yes, thank you. This installs a lot of information. > > But now that I have new manpages, old manpages disappear, e.g. before > installing this, 'man random' gave me information about /dev/random, but > now it gives me information about the random function of C. > > Is there a way to tell man that by default it should look for non-Cdev > pages, unless I told him so? > > Thanks in advance, > Sebastiaan > > > > > > or apt-cache search '(libc).*doc' > > > > -- > > ^chewie > > > > Sorry about not signing my email...I can't get access to my > > home workstation today. CCW-20010320 > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED]
