Re: using man pages for programming

2003-01-28 Thread Colin Watson
On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 01:14:57PM +0100, Robert Land wrote: > On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:32:51PM +, 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

Re: using man pages for programming

2003-01-28 Thread Robert Land
On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 07:32:51PM +, 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'? > > Inst

Re: using man pages for programming

2003-01-27 Thread Colin Watson
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

using man pages for programming

2003-01-27 Thread Robert Land
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'? Debian provides some information in several readme's and manuals in /usr/share/doc/man /usr/share/doc/man-db but unfortunatly I'm not able to extra