Re: [newbie] man select is pulling up the wrong man page

2000-08-31 Thread flupke

On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Mark Johnson wrote:

 I'm trying to find the man page on the C api "select()" but instead it's
 pulling up the man page for the shell keyword "select".  How to I find the
 correct man page?

Try "man 2 select" (to select man pages from the 2nd category)
or "man man"... ;-)

HTH
Flupke

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RE: [newbie] man select is pulling up the wrong man page

2000-08-31 Thread Mike Bowley

Or try "man a select" to get the man page for every version of "select" that
the system knows about

Mike

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From: flupke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 31 August 2000 07:52
To: Mark Johnson
Cc: LinuxNewbie (E-mail)
Subject: Re: [newbie] "man select" is pulling up the wrong man page


On Wed, 30 Aug 2000, Mark Johnson wrote:

 I'm trying to find the man page on the C api "select()" but instead it's
 pulling up the man page for the shell keyword "select".  How to I find the
 correct man page?

Try "man 2 select" (to select man pages from the 2nd category)
or "man man"... ;-)

HTH
Flupke

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