On Sun, Jun 23, 2002 at 03:04:42AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 22, 2002 at 02:45:39PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> > Osamu Aoki writes:
> > > Another one is information on "libc". "apropos libc" does not offer good
> > > pointer to "libc" in manual page.
> >
> > File a bug.
>
> On what? Do you mean that there should be some kind of summary man page
> for libc pointing to more useful sources of information? (Actually, the
> man pages for each individual libc function tend to be useful enough.)
I was initially thinking manual page similar to the one I see for PERL.
NAME
perl - Practical Extraction and Report Language
SYNOPSIS
perl [ -sTuU ] [ -hv ] [ -V[:configvar] ]
...
For ease of access, the Perl manual has been split up into
several sections:
perl Perl overview (this section)
perlfaq Perl frequently asked questions
...
Manual page in section 3 is good if you need details but there is no
simple overview. Most GNU novice like me will not be aware of all the
POSIX and GNU extension function names.
I understand now that libc6/glibc is too big to do this but simple man
page asking to read info may be nice thing for libc,libc6, and glibc.
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Osamu Aoki @ Cupertino CA USA
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