Re: how to view man pages.

2001-02-27 Thread John Galt
On Mon, 26 Feb 2001, Xucaen wrote: >Hi all. >I just installed libncurses5-dev. >man ncurses gives me a very nice overview of >ncurses. >It also gives me a very big list of function >within ncurses. Next to each function name is the >matching man page name. >for instance, clear() has the man page >

Re: how to view man pages.

2001-02-27 Thread Colin Watson
MaD dUCK <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >also sprach Xucaen (on Mon, 26 Feb 2001 06:06:48PM -0800): >> when I type man clear(3NCURSES) i get >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src$ man clear(3NCURSES) >> bash: syntax error near unexpected token >> `clear(3' > >man 3 clear > >i know it's weird, but that's how it g

never mind how to view man pages.

2001-02-26 Thread Xucaen
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Re: how to view man pages.

2001-02-26 Thread MaD dUCK
also sprach Xucaen (on Mon, 26 Feb 2001 06:06:48PM -0800): > when I type man clear(3NCURSES) i get > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/src$ man clear(3NCURSES) > bash: syntax error near unexpected token > `clear(3' man 3 clear i know it's weird, but that's how it goes... martin [greetings from the heart of

how to view man pages.

2001-02-26 Thread Xucaen
Hi all. I just installed libncurses5-dev. man ncurses gives me a very nice overview of ncurses. It also gives me a very big list of function within ncurses. Next to each function name is the matching man page name. for instance, clear() has the man page clear(3NCURSES). when I type man clear(3NCUR